"The statistics he cites are largely meaningless but the effect is to make the Shoah [Holocaust] just one detail in a century of massacres. It is part of an effort by some in the Catholic church to stop the Shoah being the most important event in the 20th century."
I have no idea who Alberto Melloni may be, but he is playing a subtle game that serves only a Leftist Agenda. He seems bent upon creating deep antagonisms among people searching for answers; while interfering with rational Conservatives recognizing the pattern that is very evident to anyone who will look. While in this quote, he doubtless wishes to appear to be a friend of Europe's Jewish minority, it would be difficult to imagine anything more likely to isolate them in a manner reminiscent of the Nazis.
To put this subject in perspective, for those who want to understand why Socialists engage in systematic mass killings, see The Cult Of "The Holocaust"--Golden Calf Of The Twentieth Century. Without such understanding, the killings of successful people will continue to recur. For Melloni to suggest that Socci's statistics are meaningless tells us a great deal indeed about Melloni.
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It seems that he is one of those liberal relativists who love to make victims of everyone to suit his agenda. As a Catholic, I claim him not.