Guidelines on Catholic-Jewish Relations Highly Commended by Jewish Spo4smen Guidelines on Catholic-Jewish party." Such meetings should be plement the Schema on Catholic- relations issued last week by the "jointly planned and developed" , Jewish relations. The guidelines said the Catholic pulpit should Catholic Bishops. in Washington, by Catholics and Jews. The guidelines called for an ex- also be used "for expounding the were widely acclaimed by major' national Jewish organizations and amination of Catholic school texts, teachings of the statement and prayerbooks and other media, "un-; , exhorting - participation in pro- by local leaders. Spokesmen for the Rabbinical der competent auspices, to remove grams fitted to the parochial level." Assembly (Conservative>. Central *" not only those materials which The subcommission also suggested Conference of American Rabbis do not accord with the content and that orientation and source - mate- American Jewish spirit" of the Ecumenical Council rial to carry out the recommenda- ( Reform Commit te e. Anti - Defamation statement on Catholic-Jewish re- tions "may be sought from the lations "but also those which fail various Catholic and Jewish orgam- Lea gue of lanai Brith and other groups commended the declaration to show Judaism's role in the zations that have been active in salvation-history in any positive the field of Christian-Jewish rela- and welcomed it as being of great significance in making the Catholic- light." They include eight gen - tions." eral principles, ten recommended Plans for the guidelines distil- Jewish dialogue a step in the di- programs for Catholic-Jewish dia- bution were announced earlier by rection of eliminating conflicts. Detroit leaders also commended logues and seven themes for Cath- Msgr. George C. Higgins, director the statement; it was highly re- olic-Jewish relations which "merit of the social action department of the att attention nti and an t d study of C oaoc th li the U.S. Catholic Conference. He carded by Rabbi Irwin Groner and th educators and scholars." I spoke at the Institute on Catholic- others. The sub-commission pointed Jewish Relations at S't. Joseph's Distributed to all Catholic out that Americans were faced bishops by the American Cath- with "an historic opportunity to olic hierarchy, the guidelines warn against proselytizing of ' advance the cause of Catholic- Jewish harmony throughout the Jews, recommend changes in world — an opportunity to con- Catholic textbooks, urge a "frank tinue leadership taken in that and honest treatment of anti- direction by our American bish• Semitism" in Catholic teaching and call for the creation in ops during the great debate on the statement at the Council." Catholic dioceses of commissions The statement, somewhat di- or secretariats for Catholic•Jew- luted from the original draft, Ish affairs. repudiates the charge of collec- The guidelines were approved five guilt of the Jewish people and distributed by the U.S. Cath- in the crucifixion of Jesus, de- olic Bishops' Sub-commission for Flores anti-Semitism and calls Catholic-Jewish Affairs. a unit in for Catholic dialogues with Jews. the Bishops' Commission for Ecu- I I lished guidelines by clarifying Citrus Exports Climb TEL AVIV (ZINS) — As of last Feb. 15 citrus exports totaled He cited the presentation of a 7,054,000 crates as against 6,588,000 passion play under church aus- crates for. the same date last year. pices in Union City, N.J.—describ- Most of the citrus fruits were ed as "permeated" by a "crude exported to the European markets, and blatant anti-Semitic atmos- where prices paid were considered phere . . . of hatred for the Jew" fair. —which he said was "antithetical to both the letter and the spirit of Vatican Council pronouncements and to the thrust of your own guidelines." The American Jewish Congress leader said the guidelines spoke eloquently and directly" to some of the central problems of dialogue between Christians and Jews. He noted, however, that the wording of the bishops' statement on the presentation of the Cruci- fixion story urged that it be pre- sented "in such a way as not to im- College in Philadelphia. Msgr. Hig- plicate all Jews of Jesus' time or gins, who was a consultant to the of today in a collective guilt for Ecumenical Council in Rome, urg- the crime," whereas the Vatican ed American Catholics to take the Council declaration said: "What initiative in fostering better Cath- happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, with- olic-Jewish relations. Rabbi Arthur .1. Lelyveld, pre- out distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today." He sident of the American Jewish COngress, in a 1,500-word letter pointed out that "the persistence of the claim of such guilt, even to Bishop John J. Carberry, chairman of the Bishops' Com- when it is ascribed in limited mittee for Ecumenical and Inter- fashion, makes interreligious dia- logue difficult." religious Affairs, called on the He informed Bishop Carberry nation's Roman Catholic bishops to implement their recently pub- that a group of leaders of the The guidelines also proposed the church position on Jewish menical and Inter-religious Af- that prayers in common with Jews guilt for the Crucifixion and fairs. combatting religious prejudice They advise Catholics to. take "should be encouraged" and that resulting from the presentation the initiative in fostering "Catho- such prayers "should meet the understanding" a n d spiritual sensibilities of both par- of passion plays. He welcomed lic - Jewish the guidelines as an "effective couple the recommendation with ties.." Advancement of Catholic- instrument in strengthening un- a warning that "proselytizing is to Jewish relations should be accom- be. carefully avoided in the dia- plished on all levels, "clerical and derstanding between Catholics logue lay, academic and popular, re- and Jews." One a dialogue with Jews has ligious and social. Particularly But he added that he was "deep- been established, the guidelines recommended were "open houses" ly troubled" by the "unfortunate" wording on one of the dialogue proposed, such meetings should be in houses of worship and "living themes, which he said may be con- "marked by a genuine respect for room dialogues." T The guidelines also urge that strued as being weaker than the the person and freedom of all participants and a willingness to - slower and deeper explorations Vatican Council pronouncement is- listen and to learn from either of pertinent issues by Catholic and sued by Pope Paul. • * * Jewish scholars must be given a high priority." They suggest that the crucifixion story be presented per pers in such a way "as not to implicate dble. occ. March 26- all Jews of Jesus' time or of today May 2 in a collective guilt for the crime." 40 of 130 rooms They also recommended strong re- Completely Air-Conditioned pudiation of anti-Semitism, and a (Direct JTA Teletype Wire Free Parking—Entertainment Nitely to The Jewish News) Jack Muraychik, Owner-Mgmt. frank and honest treatment of the ROME — Augustin Cardinal Bea history of Christian anti-Semitism in "our history books, courses, expressed satisfaction to a group of American Jews who visited him and curricula." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 30—Friday, March 24, 1967 - Holy Family Roman Catholic Church of Union City, N.J. in a local theater operated as church property and that these leaders had emerged "deeply disturbed by what they found to be the crude and blatant anti-Semitic atmos- phere that permeated the entire production." 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Mesagiesst on Premises OH THE OCEAN AT 114th STREET. MIAMI BEACH LI 8-2266 • at the Vatican over the efforts be- ing made in some countries, includ- ing the United States, to implement the church's decree relating to re- lations with the Jewish People. Cardinal Bea is the Catholic pre- late at the Vatican who was the principal proponent of the Ecumeni- cal Council's decision two years ago to adopt a declaration calling for broad improvement of Catholic- Jewish relations. As an example of the type of action which he views with satis- faction, Cardinal Bea mentioned a recent meeting at St. Joseph's Col- lege in Philadelphia, where con- crete plans were made by Cath- olic and Jewish representatives for implementation of the decree. Such meetings, he said, should be re- peated elsewhere. The group that met with the Car- dinal consisted of young leaders active in the American Jewish Com- mittee. The prelate cautioned, how- ever, that "much patience, deter- mination and wisdom" are needed. "We cannot," he declared, "undo in a few years the mis- understandings and prejudices among fellow-Christians going back so many centuries." Joint discussions between Jews and Catholics, on social issues as well as the field of religious under- standing are "desirable," the car- dinal stated. Such discussions, he said, would also help to work out common points of view on ques- tions of state aid to education and on textbdoks. He approved the examination of parochial school textbooks being carried on now at Pro Deo University's Leonard Sperry Center here and at Louvain University, in Belgium. RE-ELECT TOM ROWLEY EXPERIENCED Councilman Since 1961 DEDICATED Nine Years of Effort Helping Area Develop Into the Finest City in Michigan SINCERE Interested in Maintaining a Fine City for Your Children and Mine. YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT VOTE IM1 MONDAY, APRIL 3rd