Throughout his career as priest , bishop and pope , John Paul II spoke about the Jewish friends he had in Wadowice , his hometown in southern Poland , and his memory of their persecutions seems to have motivated him at least in large part to produce the 1998 Encyclical '' We Remember , '' in which he expressed contrition for the failure of Catholics to offer more protection to Jews and for the fact that some took part in their persecution .
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