THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 11, 1983 1 Catholic Priest Cites Problems in Liturgy, Belief (Continued from Page 7) for Jesus' death that has been traditionally so much a part of the popu- lar imagery of Holy Week." Fr. Pawlikowski added that modern Christian scholars have clearly con- cluded that "any theory of collective guilt for Jesus' death applied to the Jewish community lacks historical foundation." "The same biblical schol- ars . . . have also shOwn us that changing our attitudes on this quesiton will help the Church better ap- preciate the message of Jesus generally, including the significance of the Holy Week events. For the Jewish tradition formed the context, not merely the backdrop, for Jesus' preach- ing and teaching. "The Hebrew Scriptures were not merely prelude to his teaching; they provided the core setting and spirit. The benefits to be gained by the Church in burying once and for all the Jesus- versus-Judaism model for Holy Week interpretation go beyond restoring Chris- tian moral integrity after centuries of distorted preaching about Judaism which many times led to suffering and death for the People Israel. "If we come to understand and preach the continuity between Jesus and the pro- gressive Jewish movements of his time we will clearly enhance the richness of the Church's Easter message." Fr. Pawlikowski added, "The real picture surrounding the events of the Crucifixion, then, is not Jesus as an isolated prophet but rather Jesus standing in concert with the progressive moev- ments in Judaism such as the Pharisees over against the small group of Jews who were col- laborators with the op- pressive Roman authorities and de- nounced as such by Jewish writers of the time. "Until we re-associate Jesus with the wider Jewish struggle of the period against spiritual and politi- cal oppression, the cross and the Church's celebration of Holy Week generally will continue to carry the seeds of anti-Semitism." Fr. Pawlikowski gave a lengthy discussion of mod- ern Christian thinking about the Gospel of John, believed to be the root of most of the anti-Jewish thinking in Christian ranks. He admitted that the new scholarship will be dif- ficult to impart. Fr. Pawlikowski also chastized Christians for using portions of the Pro- phet Isaiah to confirm Jesus as the Messiah while ignor- ing other statements of Isaiah "insisting on the permanency of God's cove- nant with Isarel." "The non-fulfilled aspect of the Christ Event leave the Jewish covenant theologically intact and re- nders Hebrew Scriptures a source of ongoing meaning for Christian believers .. . 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