Joint Statement by Jewish Organizations
Hails Vatican Council, Expresses Hope That
ChurchWill`FurtherHarmonyAmongReligions'
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"A concern with the common mankind. All men of good will
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destiny of all men is deeply rooted are encouraged by the concern of
NEW YORK—Leaders of major
heritage," the joint this council with the fact that cer-
national and international Jewish in our spiritual
statement declared. "We, there- tain teachings of the church have
organizations issued Tuesday a
fore, note with satisfaction the de- been used at times as a source of
joint "statement to the Jewish
anti-Semitism.
community" expressing the hope v velopment of increasingly har-
"It is to be hoped that the final
that the Ecumenical Council now monious relationships among the
great faiths that have engendered determination of the Council will
in session in Rome would act to
common positions and actions on contribute to the effective elimina-
"contribute to the effective elimi-
vital humanitarian issues." The tion of anti-Semitism and all
nation of anti-Semitism and all
statement added that while "the sources of bigotry and prejudice
sources of bigotry and prejudice"
ever-increasing contact between and will lead to better understand-
for a "better understanding among
peoples in the modern world has ing among all peoples."
all peoples."
created new dimensions in hu-
The Jewish organizations par-
The statement issued here fol-
lowed conclusion of debate at the man relations which Jews have t i c i p a t i n g in the deliberations
third Ecumenical Council in Rome welcomed
and in which
fully participated,"
the they
Jew have
now under the chairmanship of Label
on a proposed declaration on Cath- no less than in the past "remains . et. . Katz, president of Bnai Brith,
olic-Jewish relations. During the ; steadfast in his historic commit- which led to the joint statement,
Vatican debate, many of the 2,500 ; ment determined to preserve his were the American Jewish Com-
i mittee, American Jewish Congress,
prelates attending the session, led ; faith and heritage . "
,,
Bnai Brith', Canadian Jewish Con-
by .a group of American cardinals!
The joint statement noted that , gress, Central Conference of Amer-
arid' bishops, strongly urged a draft ,
"a
ican
Rabbis, Jewish Labor Corn-
which would absolve all Jews, past ' the Ecumenical Council was
mittee, Jewish War Veterans of the
and present, of the charge of dei- i convocation of the religious lead-
United States, National Commu-
ership of the Catholic church
cide, would condemn anti-Semitism
nity Relations Advisory Council,
concerned with the problem of
and eliminate any statement sug-
Rabbinical Assembly of America,
gesting conversion of Jews to Christian unity and the defini-
Rabbinical Council of America,
Christianity. The Council is ex- 1 tion of Catholic religious doe-
Union of American Hebrew Con-
pected to act before the end of trines," and it would therefore
gregations, Union of Orthodox
"be improper for the Jewish
October on the question, and the
Jewish Congregations of America,
Vatican Secretariat is already at ' community which is not a part
United Synagogue of America, and
of Christianity or its ecumenical
work on amendments to strengthen
World Jewish Congress.
the draft movement to offer suggestions
concerning religious doctrine to
The organizations said that Jew-
A much stronger original ver-
this council."
ish organizations on five continents
sion was prepared by Augustin
"However," the joint statement affiliated with the World Confer-
Cardinal Bea, president of the
continued, "it is our hope that this ence of J e w i s h Organizations,
Secretariat, which was introduced
council •iI1 further harmonious which initiated the consulations in
at the second session but not
relationships among the religions New York, would publish the same
voted on. Between the second
of the world in their efforts to statement simultaneously in their
and third sessions, the draft was
seek solutions - to the problems of i communities.
substantially diluted, under cir-
cumstances which prelates
themselves indicated
was
a
mystery.
The fact that the draft had been
changed under such circumstances
left uncertain the fate of the drive
to strengthen it. The Secretariat
is working with a - list of 70 amend-
ments submitted prior to the open-
ing of the third session, plus a
lengthy list of proposals offered
by prelates during the two clays of
debate on the issue.
The joint statement adopted in
New York declared that historically
Jews "have been the bearers of
a
distinctive religious commit-
ment" and that "no matter how
great the pressures, no sacrifice
has been too great for us to main-
tain our unique religious char-
acter."
`Jew of Malta' Greeted With Raves in London
in the great debate at the current
Ecumenical Council on Catholic re-
LONDON—The first production Ilations to the Jewish people.
here of Christopher Marlowe's
"The Jew of Malta." in 40 years
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Commonweal Calls
for Strong Stand
on Jewish Issue
NEW YORK (JTA)—Common-
weal, liberal Catholic lay-edited
weekly, this week asserted that if
Roman Catholicism was "serious
about erasing Christian anti-Semit-
ism," the Ecumenical Council
would have to take a stronger
stand on relations with the ,Jewish
people than the revised version of
the draft declaration on which de-
bate was concluded at the Vatican
this week.
The weekly criticized "the need-
less skirting of the deicide issue"
in the revised draft and the em-
phasis on "reunion" of Jews with
Christianity. The Commonweal de-
clared that such elements were "as
offensive to Jews as they should
be to understanding Catholics."
Asserting that the church could
not "settle for the mild form of lip
service now before the Council,"
the weekly said that "the needs of
diplomacy and of the political sen-
sitivities of the Arab governments
must not be granted the sort of
weight that brings a parliamentary
compromise."
Other criticisms of the debated
Vatican document were voiced by
the Catholic Reporter, organ of the
Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese;
and the Catholic Universe Bulletin
of Cleveland, the central Diocesan
newspaper in that city. Both crit-
icized the new version, which has
been strongly opposed by Jewish
leaders, as well as by most Amer-
ican cardinals and archbishops in
the Council debate in Rome.
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