AJC Study Depicts Catholic Attitudes on Je

PARTS—Completion of the most
intensive, wide-ranging study ever •
yet undertaken of how current
Catholic French-language educa-
tional literature portrays Jews and
Judaism was announced by Philip
E. Hoffman, president of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee, and,
jointly, by the Catholic University
of Louvain in Belgium.
The three year investigation—
which probed in detail a 79-volume
8,000,000-word representative sam-
pling of Catholic texts most widely,
used in religious teaching i n
France, Belgium, French-speaking
Canad a, and French-speaking
Switzerlarid—was carried out by
the Socio-Religious Research Cen-
ter at Louvain University, directed
by Canon Francois Houtart, and
by the Catechetic Research Center
headed by Canon Jean Giblet. Lou-
vain University and the American
Jewish Committee co - sponsored
the study.

"One must record," the Lou-
vain study reports, "that the
texts will give a perjorative
image of Jews and Judaism, es-

pecially in their treatment of the
Passion story. But one must also

clearly affirm that there is no

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though, do not deal with the "cen-
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as opposed to those who do bctwen 20 and 64, the Michigan
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porary French-language cateche-
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tic teaching to present Jews and virtually have disappeared, t h e have faith, the study notes.
Judaism in a negative manner." Louvain study says. "For example,
The "heart of the problem," the there is no more question of del-
Louvain study declares, is that cide or of malediction on the Jews
Jews are depicted as the "type of our time." Such improvements, I PETE YUBA'S
portrayals" of "non-believers of
had faith, as examples not to fol-
low, serving as foils for contrast
with a Christian attitude." In such
an optic, too, the Judaism of Jesus'
time is made to appear as a ma-
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terialist, legalistic religion, as set
off against an essentially spiritual
faith, Christianity.
Catering to the ...
The majority of the accounts of
the Passion, the Louvain scholars
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write, collectively implicate all the
Jews of Jesus' time in his con-
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demnation and death. They do this,
though, in reticent and ambiguous
fashion, not so much explicitly as
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