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Attempt at Vatican Revision Called Futile

(Continued from Page 1)
Ecumenical Council, due to recon-
vene at the Vatican Sept. 17. The
Coordination Commission for the
next Council session will then
schedule the revised draft for the
agenda. The Bea secretariat
spokesman made it very clear to-
day that "no committee"—ob-
viously referring to the ad hoc
commission—can bypass this pro-
cedure or bypass the plenary
meeting of 30 bishops.
* *
Pope Paul Reassures
Canadian Jewish Mayor
on His Stand on Jews
TORONTO (JTA)—Philip Giv-
ents, Jewish mayor of Toronto
now on a visit to Italy, in an au-
dience with Pope Paul VI, was
assured by the pontiff that re-
cent remark he made about the
crucifixion of Jesus had caused
him "distress" by being inter-
preted as a criticism of the Jewish
people. "I can assure you of my
serious concern and my sympathies
for the Jewish people," the Pope
told Givens.
To emphasize his point, Pope
Paul instructed one of his aides
to show Mayor Givens a letter
he was sending to an unidentified
rabbi. In it, the Pope expressed
his "surprise" and "consternation"
over the criticism of his remarks
during a Passion Sunday Lenten
sermon. In that sermon, the pon-
tiff interpreted the Gospel dealing
with that day, quoting the Gospel's
assertion that the Jews had killed
Jesus.
* * *
Bea Arrives in New York;
Jews Shocked at Revision Try
NEW YORK (JTA) — Augustin
Cardinal Bea, head of the Vatican
Secretariat which deals with the
Declaration on Jews to be pre-
sented to the forthcoming session
of the Ecumenical Coouncil for
final adoption, arrived at Kennedy
Airport Wednesday en route to
Philadelphia to accept there the
International Fellowship Award
which was to be presented to him
at a dinner on Thursday. He was
welcomed at the airport by a rep-
resentative of the Philadelphia
Archdiocese and an official of the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith.
Prof. Abraham J. Heschel, who
had visited the Vatican in con-
nection with the proposed state-
ment on Jews by the Ecumenical
Council, today issued the follow-
ing comment on reports that the
Vatican may revise drastically the
statement on deicide:
"The deicide charge is the most
dreadful calumny ever uttered. It
has resulted in rivers of blood and

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, April 30, 1965

mountains of human ashes. To mil-
lions of Christians and to the over-
whelming majority of Roman
Catholic bishops, it is absurd, mon-
strous, unhistorical and the su-
preme repudiation of the gospel
of love. Weakening the document
in any of its aspects which was
inspired by the grandeur of con-
science and the spirit of love,
would remain for all time one of
the major contributions to anti-
Semitism. We pray that Satan may
never witness such a triumph."
Leaders of American Jewry
were shocked and highly disap-
pointed today to learn that the
draft declaration approved at
the Ecumenical Council last No-
vember, exonerating the Jews
on any collective responsibility
for the crucifixion of Jesus, had
been drastically revised by an
ad hoc commission of four at
the Vatican, despite the fact
that it was adopted at the Coun-
cil by a vote of 1,992 to 99.
The New York Times, in a cable
from its correspondent in Rome,
said the draft declaration is now
being fought at top levels in the
Vatican, and is in danger of being
so diluted as to make its message
meaningless. The correspondent
cited the following facts as indi-
cations that the declaration faces
new challenges, and that changes
in its text may be made next
month, during a plenary meeting
of the Council Secretariat for
Christian Unity:

1. The document had been passed
on to an ad hoc extra-councilor
commission of four prelates, acting
as a separate group instead of being
part of the Council, for review of
the declaration and for recommend.
ing revisions. That body is composed
of four prelates, headed by the Rev.
Luigi Carli, of Segni, Italy, identi-
field as "one of the most ultra-con-
servative voices in the church."
This group has reportedly proposed
a completely new and shorter text
of a declaration which would speak
merely of "forgiveness" -to the Jews
rather than of exonerating them of
the decide charge. Only one member of
the aid hoc group, Giovanni Cardinal
Colombo, archbishop of Milan, was
reported to have opposed the changes
advocated by Bishop Carli.
2. "Highest Vatican authorities"
were reportedly in favor of revising
the preliminary declaration "to insure
its orthodoxy and purity of doctrine"
and to safeguard the, interests of
Roman Catholics in Arab lands who
fear their governments • would discrim-
inate against them if the declaration
is adopted as approved last November.
3. A magazine article by Bishop
Carli last month, bluntly asserting
that the Jews of Jesus's day did, in-
deed, bear collective responsibility for
His crucifixion. Further, the bishop
wrote that, to the extent that Judaism
today constitutes the "free and volun-
tary continuation" of that of Jesus's
time, today's Jews continue to "par-
ticipate objectively in the responsibili-
ty for deicide."
4. A sermon on April 4 by Pope Paul
VI illustrating the continued rejection
of Jesus by many men by reference
to the Jews who "in the end, killed
him." Assurances by Vatican spokes-
men that this was merely a pastoral
reference to scriptural texts without
any significance for the declaration
have failed to still speculation that it
indicated papal adoption of the con-
servative thesis.
5. Intense diplomatic activity be-
tween Arab representatives and the

Jerusalem Center
for Events Slated
Independence Day

Vatican, the Arabs insisting that the
preliminary declaration as it stands
would be interpreted as Vatican sup-
port of Israel.

The Times reported that high-
r a n k i n g churchmen, including
Americans, who have asked the
Vatican to reassure them that the
November draft would not be al-
tered substantively, have received
"equivocal answers from the high-
est Vatican sources."
The American Jewish Com-
mittee and the American Jewish
Congress issued statements indi-
cating their sharp reaction to
the new developments at the
Vatican in connection with the
Declaration on the Jews, which
is to come for final adoption
before the next session of the
Ecumenical Council, which
opens in September.
Declaring that the report on the
rising opposition against the final
adoption of this document "fills
us with sadness and deep disap-
pointment," Morris B. Abram,
president of the American Jewish
Committee, said:
"The introduction of a political
factor brought about by Arab
pressures astonishes us because,
only last May, Pope Paul VI, in an
audience graciously granted to an
American Jewish Committee dele-
gation, himself emphatically ex-
pressed the view that this concern
with Christian-Jewish relations
was solely a religious matter. The
theological aspect to which the
Times correspondent alludes has
received the most intensive scru-
tiny and deliberation since the
Ecumenical Council was first con-
ceived by the late Pope John
XXIII of blessed memory. The vote

in favor of adoption in principle
of the text as it emerged from
the third session was 1,922 to 99.
"This action received the uni-
versal acclaim of all men of good
will the world over, regardless
of religious persuasion. A new
era in interreligious understanding
was about to be born. We pray that
the vast forces of enlightenment
in the Catholic Church will pre-
vail, and that the final action of
the Ecumenical Council will.forge
an unbreakable bond of human
brotherhood, so desperately needed
in this strife-torn world," Mr.
Abram declared.
Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of
the American Jewish Congress, de-
clared: "The decision of the Cath-
olic fathers to draft a statement
on the Jews should be seen not
as an effort to exonerate the Jews
from guilt of deicide, but as a
means of exonerating the Church
from the role its teachings have
played in anti-Semitism and the
horrors resulting from it. As the
Catholic Church ezamines the ef-
fect its teachings have had on
the history of anti-Semitism, the
Jewish people have no role to
play but to await with patience
and dignity that act of Catholic
conscience which is represented
in the Schema."

JERUSALEM — Five of the six
major events planned for the cele-
bration next Wednesday of Israel
Independence Day will be held in
Jerusalem, it was announced Wed-
nesday.
The principal military parade,
including the air force display, will
be held in Tel Aviv. A display of
fireworks, music and a 2,000-mem-
ber military parade will be held
in Jerusalem on Wednesday night,
as well as a military review in
the Hebrew University stadium
which will be attended by Israel's
military leaders.
The main events include the
kindling of a torch on Mount
Herzl to mark the close of the
observance. Other events will be
a World Youth Bible Q u i
awards of Israel prizes in music,
agriculture and education, plus
an Independence Day Song Fes-
tival.
One week earlier, places of en-
tertainment and cafes throughout
Israel were closed as observance
began of the memorial day for
the victims of the Nazi holocaust.
Flags were lowered to half mast,
and memorial candles were
kindled. Assemblies were held in
Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and in
a number of collective settlements.
One of the services was led by
Chief Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unter-
mann in Tel Aviv's Great Syna-
gogue. In Jerusalem, a Talmud
study session was held in memory
of the 6,000,000 Jewish victims
of the Nazi genocide by Yeshiva
students at the synagogue of the
Yad Vashem, the memorial cen-
ter for the victims of Nazism.
The 20th anniversary of the 'li-
beration of the Nazi death camps
was marked by a Remembrance
Day proclamation delivered over
the Kol Israel radio network by
Al Kubovy, chairman of the Yad
Vashem.

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