Pope Paul Reported Preparing
Separate Declaration on. Jews
ROME (JTA)
Pope Paul VI Cardinal Silva, Chile's topmost
was reported here to have decided Catholic prelate, declared here
to make the proposed Catholic Wednesday upon his return from
Church declaration , on relations Rome.
with Jews into a separate docu-
"The church," he said, "Must
ment, unrelated to any of the other declare clearly that absolution of
schemas under consideration by the the ewish people from the charge
Ecumenical Council.
of deicide is not a political matter.
Vatican sources saw such separa- With or without reason many Jews
tion of the declaration on relations have believed that part of the
with Jews as a move strengthening cause for their persecution and for
the importance of the document the painful sufferings of their
They believe that the new declara- people is due to the disgrace suf-
tion may be promulgated by the fered by them due to the charge
Council before it closes its current of deicide.
session on Nov. 21.
We want to rub out this charge
The new draft of the declaration. as an act of mercy and love to
it is understood, will state clearly these people. We must remember
.
TUCSON, Ariz. (JTA) — The
Arizona Catholic RegiSter declared
in its current issue that a "strong
clear statement' from the Ecu-
menical Council `on Catholic Jew-
ish relations was needed because
many Catholics were guilty of
anti-Semitic hatred.
The publication asserted that
while the official policy of the
Catholic church in the United
States has never been tainted with
anti-Semitism, the same 'cannot
be said of us as individuals.
"You don't have to be very old
or travel very far in some Catholic
circles to find evidence of real
hatred of the Jewish race. Some
that the Jewish people as a whole that many of Christianity's leaders of the slang expressions are quite
are absolved fro m the ancient were themselves Jews."
inexcusable and offensive," the
charge of deicide. To placate the
Catholic organ stated.
bishops from Moslem countries, who
It was for this reason, the pub-
feared that a declaration of that., Several Israelis Hurt
lication declared, that "we need
kind might have an adverse effect
to have a strong, clear statement
in their areas, the new version in AnacK by SYrians
from the Council that will remove
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will emphasize the fact that the
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once and for all any suspicion
Catholic church statement is en-
TEL AVIV — Israelis suffered
tirely nonpolitical and is directed a number of casualties in the that the church regards the Jews
as a cursed race, and that to
against blind anti-Semitism.
shooting attack by Syrians Tues- harbor hatred for them is not
day. Israel officials reported really a very serious sin at all, if
Ecumenical Authority Wednesday. The Syrians attacked it is a sin."
Israeli tractor working fields
The editorial reminded Cath-
Predicts Adoption of an
north of Kibbutz Dan near the
olics that "we ought to print in-
Israelis
returned
Syrian
border.
Draft Statement
delibly on our minds that the
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ROME (JTAI—A prediction that the fire.
Jews were God's Chosen People,
that all the first Christians,
the current session of the Ecu- The tractor driver was hit in
and
a
num pope, bishops, priests, deacons
znenical Council will approve a the back by a bullet,
draft declaration on Jews was ber of border guards were in- , and laity were Jews, that our
made by Dr. Hans Kueng, Tuebin- jured by splinters. Israeli counter- most sacred writings come to us
from the pens of Jewish authors,
gen University theologian and fire silenced one of two Syrian
• tanks which took part in the at-
that the very prayers we sa y at
Ecumenical Council expert.
tack.
It
appeared
that
the
Syrians
a
Mass and in the priest's breviary
In making the prediction at
were composed in large part by
press conference. the West German were placing tanks for armored
theologian said that one cannot gun positions all along the border.
Jews."
know yet- the final form in which The tractor had been working T h e editorial denounced t h e
the draft would be adopted. Intro- on fields consistently cultivated charge of deicide against Jews as
duced in the second session, the by Israeli farmers without inter- "laughable if so many did not
draft was not voted on and prior ruption by the Syrian border
to the third and current session, positions.
It was diluted.
The dilutions prompted liberal
Women Soldiers
ombat. Illiteracy
in Neget Outpost
prelates at the Council, led by
American prelates, to demand re- C
instatement of the original strong
version.. The final draft is now
being prepared for Council action.
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ZIMRAT, Israel — This village
Spanish Bishops Lauded
For Pro-Jewish Stand
sett e d seven
outpost in the Negev.l
years ago by immigrants from a
l backward region of Tunisia, now
take it seriously" and said no
sane person could place the blame
for Christ's death on the Jews of
his time and that it was "much
more irrational" to "create a sort
of collective guilt Wand charge it to
Jews living centuries later and
thousands of miles from 'the
crime."
The editorial said that American
Catholics should be proud "that
our own bishops are so prominent
in the rewriting of a strong reso-
lution condemning anti-Semitism.
But we can also endeavor to re-
call our close ties to the Jewish
NEW YORK (JTA)—The role of boasts women who can read and
the Spanish bishops at the
writ
e simple-enough achievement
Council in seeking the
race and do all we can to era
The
adoption of a statement disassoci-
was
unknown among the women
ating the Jews from any guilt in until the Israeli Army posted worn- ca
dite once and for all my feel
connection with the death of Jesus an solders here' to teach them the ing of hatred towards those whose
was
blood
is the same as that which
Abram.
lauded
by
Morris
B.
was
rudiments of an education, it
president of the American Jewish reported in a special to The New flowed in the veins of the sacred
Committee during a meeting with York Times. The men had all body of Christ."
Manuel Fraga Iribarne, the Span- been taught by their rabbis in
ish minister of information and Tunisia to read Hebrew prayers
tourism.
and biblical texts.
Abram particularly praised a
A survey last year showed that
statement at the Council by Cardi-
more than half the adults could
nal Jose Maria•Bueno y Montreal,
not read or write. Because of the
archbishop of Seville, who said
remoteness of the region and the
last month in a reference to the
"it absence of teachers, the Israeli
declaration on the Jews that
Army posted 65 women soldiers
would be deplorable if this dec-
to 52 Negev settlements for the
the
laration were not made by con—
drive.
Council." Fraga stressed the
Friday, November 6, 1964-9
Arizona Catholic Press THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Urges Vatican Refute
Anti-Semitic Charges
The Ministry of Education award-
tribution of Judaism to Spain's
ed certificates to 43 women to
heritage.
mark their completion of the first
phase of their studies.
Catholic Prelate in Chile
The government's drive, which
Urges Statement on Jews began in January, has reached
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10,000 persons. Elsewhere in the
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SANTIAGO, Chile — The Ecu- countr y, two-thirds of 162,000
znenical Council sitting in the illiterates are women; most are .
Vatican must adopt a declaration from Moslem countries and from
`clearly absolving the Jewish peo- parts of Europe where educations
pre of the charge of deicide, Raul were disrupted by war.
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cendiary bombS, flares and rock-
SHERATON CADILLAC
ets was found in the home of a
farmer near here, it was an-
nounced by , special agents of the
U. S. Treasury Department, who
raided the farmer's home. The
accused man, William Huntingdon
Garland, 47, told the government
agents he is a member of an or-
ganization calling itself the Chris-
tian Defense League.
There were more than 100 weap-
ons in the man's home, the agents
said, as well as several thousand
rounds of ammunition and about
30 bulletproof vests. The man was
held for a hearing on a charge of
violating the federal firearms act.
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