Pope John's Memory Honored by World Jewry
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Council. By that he courage-
Several Popes had expressed-. ously demonstrated that he was
interest in Jews, but none a strong Pope who believed in
matched Pope John XXIII in • recognizing the rights of all
embodying that interest in spe- men to worship the one God of
cific acts. As Archbishop Angelo us all. His interest in universal
Roncalli, he was apostolic dele- good-will at once made a big
gate to Greece and Turkey, footprint in the sands of time.
based in Istanbul, during World
"As a Rabbi, I followed the
War II. When told of the plight Ecumenical Council with keen
of several thousand Jews, in- interest, for I realized that
cluding a number of children, some issues discussed were vital
slated for deportation to death to Christian - Jewish relation-
at Auschwitz, he instantly made ships. Pope John took a fresh
available thousands of baptismal look at the Catholic-Jewish con-
certificates for use for the frontation. He made possible
doomed Jews, without condi- "dialogues" b e t w e e n priests,
tions. Thus thousands were ministers and rabbis that never
saved from the Nazi furnaces. before occurred. The example
Early in his papacy, he or- of his personal life was touch-
dered the elimination from the ing."
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Good Friday liturgy of the ref-
erence to "perfidious Jews,"
JERUSALEM — JTA — Pres-
which he knew was offensive ident Zalman S'hazar, in a cable
to Jews and which, it was un- to the Vatican Tuesday declared
derstood, he considered not a that the people of Israel and
doctrinal matter but a carry- he personally joined in the
over from the polemical history "heavy grief" of the Catholic
of the past.
world over the death of Pope
He had strong personal feel- John XXIII.
ings about the need to remove
"The Pope's life was conse-
the bases of animosity and hos- crated to the advancement of
tility between religious commun- mutual understanding and the
ities, particularly in regard to establishment of world peace,"
Jews, who, he was known to the President declared. "The
feel, had a special role in "sal- Pope's positive measures to
vation history." This was re- eradicate hatred will be en-
flected again during the recent graved as a testimonial of his
Good Friday when, according to attitude toward Jews and will
press reports, the celebrant of live in the memory of our peo-
the mass at the Vatican, either ple."
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from habit or through use of a
missal not brought up-to-date,
NEW YORK—JTA—The Na-
again made a reference to
"perfidious Jews." The Pope tonal Communty Relations Ad-
halted the service and had it re- visory Council which formulates
peated in its entirety, with that the policy for national congre-
reference omitted.
gations and organization as well
Removed Animosity
as for 64 regional and local
This attitude was exemplified Jewish councils throughout—is-
again when, in January, 1959, sued a statement declaring that
he appointed Cardinal Bea as Pope Pohn's death "is a loss
president of the secretariat for not only to the church that he
promoting Christian unity for headed with such grace com-
the Ecumenical Council. Car- passion and wisdom but to the
dinal Bea's commission has with- w o r 1 d." The statement was
in it a smaller group with
specific responsibilities to im-
prove relations between Catho-
lics and Jews by removing
inherited doctrinal sources of
animosity through changes in
Catholic teachings and liturgy.
The Pope was known to have
been kept acquainted with every-
thing this commission wos doing.
and Cardinal Bea consistently
had strong support from the
Pope for the work of this com-
mission.
His assistance to Jewish res-
cue missions earned him con-
gratulations on his election as
Pope from the then Chief
Rabbi of Israel, Dr. Herzog. He
received further praise in Oc-
tober 1960, when he gave an aud-
ience to 130 members of the
United Jewish Appeal, who pre-
sented him with a scroll. He
said to them in greeting, "I am
Joseph,. your brother," a ref-
erence to the Old Testament
story of Joseph.
America. and Mrs. Joseph Wil- over the Pope's death. Jewish
len, president of the National newspapers in Argentina
stressed the Pope's popularity
Council of Jewish Women.
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with Jews and his friendly atti-
signed by Lewis H. Weinstein,
tude
toward Jews.
BRUSSELS, (JTA) — Mes-
NCRAC chairman.
The World Council of Syna- sages of condolence from Bel-
gogues, which has affiliates in gain Jewry on the death of Pope
FOR THE
26 countries, cabled • a message John XXIII were conveyed in
to the Vatican stating "Pope cables sent by the Central Jew-
John's saintly insights into the ish Consistory of Belgium to
needs and responsibilities of Cardinal Cicognani in Rome
men everywhere have estab- and to the Apostolic Nuncio in
YOU WILL GIVE
lished him as one of one of the Belgium. -
WITH PRIDE .
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giants of good will in modern
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) —
history meriting the age old
Let Ohrenstein
Jewish designation of "right- DATA, central body of Argen-
eous of all nations reserved for tine Jewry, declared in a mes-
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those who demonstrate by their sage that the Argentine Jewish
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with deep anxiety the news of
love for God and man."
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Tributes to the memory of
Pope John were paid here in
statements by Rabbis Morris
, Adler, Leon Fram and Richard
C. Hertz.
Rabbi Fram will devote his
- sermon at Temple Israel serv-
ices next Friday night, June
14, to a review _of the Pope's
career, especially, in relation-
ship to the Jewish people,
and to a eulogy to Pope
John's work during his en-
tire lifetime. A month ago
Dr. Frani devoted a Sabbath
Eve sermon at Temple Israel
to an analysis and interpreta-
tion of Pope John's encyclical
"Pacem In Terris," and to an
appraisal of . the Ecumenical
Council which the Pope had
summoned.
In his statement on the pass-
ing of Pope John, Dr. Hertz
declared:
"The name of Pope John
XXIII will be recorded forever
as a blessing and a benediction.
"He called an Ecumenical
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