Actress and social activist Susan Sarandon has been reported that Pope Benedict Nazis called for public debate at a film festival in New York, prompting criticism from groups of Catholics and Jews.
Film star, who won an Oscar for his role in the anti-death penalty Film 1995 "Dead Man Walking", the actor, said he sent a copy of the book where the movie Whale.
"Past does not exist. The Nazis are now, "he was quoted by The New York Newsday.
The statement was made on Saturday in an interview about her career Sarandon, directed by Bob Balaban actors, which is part of the Hamptons Film Festival.
Newsday Sarandon Balaban said gently rebuked for comment, but repeat it.
Sarandon Hollywood agent did not return calls seeking comment Monday.
German-born Benedict XVI, before Joseph Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler Youth in 1940 when compulsory membership, the Vatican said. He left the army during World War II and said that as a devout Catholic, her parents rejected Nazi ideology.
Sarandon, 65, who grew up in New York as a Roman Catholic, was known for supporting causes from AIDS and the hunger for leadership against the war in Iraq. The "Thelma and Louise" star named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999.
Catholic League is based in New York for Religious and Civil Rights called Sarandon observation "obscene" and said in a statement Monday that "deliberate naiveté".
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which fought anti-Semitism, Sarandon was asked to apologize to the Catholic community.
"Ms. Sarandon can have their differences with the Catholic Church, but that's no reason to throw around the Nazi analogy. Such words were full of anger, revenge, and serves only to reduce the true history and meaning of the Holocaust, "the ADL said in a statement.
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