Jewish Leadership Joi ns Other Faiths in Mourning
Death of Friend, Augustin Cardinal Bea, at Age 87
(Direct JTA Teletype wire
to The Jewish News)
ROME — Jewish leaders joined
Roman Catholic, Protestant and
Eastern Orthodox church and lay
leaders here Tuesday at the funer-
al of Augustin Cardinal Bea, who
died last week at age 87.
Cardinal Bea was the chief
Vatican spokesman for Christian
unity and was the architect of the
Vatican Ecumenical Council's dec-
laration absolving the Jewish peo-
ple of guilt for the crucifixion of '
Christ.
Zachariah Schuster, European
director of the American Jewish
Committee, represented that or-
ganization at the rites. Earlier,
AJCommittee President Arthur J.
Goldberg cabled condolences- to
Pope Paul VI. He said in his mes-
sage that Cardinal Bea "will be
remembered by Jewish history as
the architect of the Vatican Coun-
cil Declaration on Non-Christian
Religions" which "provided the
foundation for an unprecedented
improvement in relations between
Catholics and Jews throughout the
world."
Goldberg's message recalled that
Cardinal Bea had met in March
1963 with a group of leading Jew-
ish scholars at the AJCommittee's
New York headquarters when the
issue of Catholic-Jewish relations
was being considered by the Vati-
can Council. .
"Out of that intense experience,
Jewish leadership was deeply im-
pressed by the cardinal's sincerity
and friendship, his keen sensitivity
to and appreciation of Judaism as
a living faith and the spiritual
vitality of the Jewish people, and
his firm commitment to uproot the
ancient theological roots of anti-
Semitisrn," Goldberg wrote.
Cardinal Bea, born in Germany,
joined the Jesuit order and later
came to Rome where he initiated
a new type of historical research
in biblical studies and served as
spiritual adviser to Pope Pius VII.
Pope John XXIII elevated him
to the rank of cardinal and en-
trusted him with drafting the
declaration on non-Christian re-
ligions which was presented
when the Ecumenical Council
opened in Rome in 1960. The dec-
laration brought some of the bit-
terest debate to the Council but
Cardinal Bea argued that neither
the Jews of Christ's time, who
were scattered throughout the
Roman Empire, much less the
Jews of today, could be held re-
sponsible for the crucifixion. His
view prevailed.
on mutual trust and understand-
ing. ",
The Latin American Executive
of the World Jewish Congress sent
a letter of condolence Tuesday to
the apostolic nuncio, Msgr. Um-
berto Mozzoni, on the death of
Augustin Cardinal Bea.
The WJCongress also cabled a
message of sympathy to the Royal
Spanish Academy on the death of
its life president, Ramon Menen-
dez Pidal, long a friend of the
Jews. Sr. Pidal had contributed to
the elimination of many idioms
and terms offensive to Jews from
Spanish dictionaries.
Israeli Girl, 18, Dies
After Jordan Attack
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An 18-year-
old Tel Aviv girl, Dana Najar,
died Nov. 12 of injuries received
during the Jordanian bombard-
ment two days earlier of a Beisan
Valley settlement where the girl
was working at the time. She was
one of three civilians injured when
the Jordanians fired 50 shells at
the settlement within five minutes.
Six young saboteurs from the
Gaza Strip have been sentenced
to prison terms of from three to
15 years on charges of member-
ship in sabotage organization and
possession of firearms and ex-
plosives. Some of the accused
were high school students aged 17
and 18 who drew the shorter pri-
son terms.
Two Arab saboteurs were killed
and a third was wounded and cap-
tured in an encounter with an Is-
raeli army patrol in the Jordan
Valley near Umm Tutz Sunday
night. There were no Israeli cas-
ualties. But an Israeli soldier was
injured slightly when Jordanians
shelled Israeli positions in the
northern Beisan Valley near Ash-
dod Yaacov, a military spokesman
reported.
Sporadic exchanges of small
arms and mortar fire continued
through the night along the cease-
fire demarcation line.
Lt. Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev, chief
of staff of Israel's armed forces,
visited two Beisan Valley settle-
ments Monday and advised the
settlers to build "deeper and
stronger" shelters. The villages,
Kfar Ruppin and Beisan, have
been frequent targets of Jordanian
artillery shelling and rocket at-
tacks by the 130mm. Czech-made
"Katyusha" rocket launcher.
Gen. Bar-Lev said the army was
using old and new methods to fight
sabotage and terrorist activities.
He warned the settlers to be ready
for sudden bombardments.
Cardinal Bea noted in his report
to the Council in September 1964
that no other matter before the
Ecumenical Council had command-
ed such widespread attention as
the declaration on Jews. "The
simple fact of this interest," he
wrote, "shows how the world is
looking to the church for approval
or rejection of this document and
how the judgment on the whole
Council will be made almost solely
on this point. The church," his re-
port continued, "must follow the
example of Christ and of the Apos-
tles in their love of the Jewish
people."
Habit is habit and not to be flung
Goldberg said in his message
that, "In the tradition of the Juda- out of the window by any man,
but
coaxed downstairs a step at a
ism, Cardinal Bea is regarded as
—Mark Twain.
one of the truly righteous men time.
among the peoples of the earth
who is assured of a blessed portion
in the world to come. . . His
memory is an inspiration for all
future generations who seek to
build a more humane world based
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