. .77 :LTAT717 rt. •72' tIr.r..Nr,T4 ::,!•.•,, 7 ., !-,,, , ii . .1,..cr,v,. rA ■ 41 711.11 .• • • .••• II MID M. 110:ril7:711 701. ..,,i, ,,,,;, ,, ,,,,,ii ,,, ±:i.......;.t. 0 NEWS ■ SSOP;ATES - • pope's Visit To Rome Shul Makes History Pope John Paul II Rome (JTA) — Pope John Paul II visited the main syna- gogue here last Sunday, the first Pontiff in history to enter a Jewish house of worship. He spoke for 20 minutes in words exceptionally warm and rich with meaning, addressed ob- viously not only to Rome's 2,000-year old Jewish commun- ity, the oldest in the Western diaspora, but to Jews and Chris- tians all over the world. But above'all, it was the scene itself which spoke with mem- orable eloquence. There was no precedent to the visual impact of the white robed Pope and the similarly white robed Chief Rabbi of Rome, Elio Toaff, seated side-by-side at a white draped table, in perfect equality; the Papal entourage seated behind the Pope; the rabbinical entourage behind the rabbi. John Paul referred to the ' Jewish people as "Our dearly beloved brothers and, in a cer- tain way, it could be said that you are our older brothers." He addressed himself to the cen- turies of persecution by the Church suffered by Jews and the long process of reconcilia- tion, begun with Vatican Coun- cil II in 1965 and its famous declaration, Nostra Aetate (Our Times), which repudiated Jew- ish guilt for the death of Jesus. "Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words 'of the well known declaration Nostra Aetate, deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone," the Pope declared. "I repeat, by anyone," he added which, to all.present, was seen as a reference to the Church itself. The Pope listened with eyes closed as Giacoma Saban, presi- dent of the Rome Jewish Com- munity, speaking in tight, measured and ' precise tones, reviewed the vicissitudes, humiliations and sufferings of Roman Jewry in the long cen- turies of Papal rule. Saban was the first to address the hushed throng in the syn- agogue. He stressed the cen- trality of Israel to the Jewish People, a broad hint of the disap- pointment felt by the Vatican's refusal to date to extend diplo- matic recognition to the Jewish State. The Pope made no direct reference to this. But his general statements implied his aware- ness that the issue will have to be faced in the future. "It is not, of course, because the dif- ferences between us have not been overcome that I have come among you. We know well that this is not so," he said. "Perhaps there still remain between us difficulties of the practical order waiting to be overcome on the level of frater- nal relations. These are the results of mutual misunder- standing, and also of different positions and attitudes not eas- ily settled, in complex and im- portant matters." That last phrase, according to Vatican experts, was the Pope's way of replying that the issue of recogntion of Israel is still un- solved and needs to be solved. The Pope also used several key phrases which seemed to be a direct reply to Jewish objec- tiong to, concepts recently ex-_, pressed in Papal homilies. Speaking of love and justice, he said, "Christians have learned this desire of the Lord from the Torah, which you venerate, and from Jesus, who took to its ex- treme consequences the love demanded by the Torah." That statement, too, was seen as an emphasis on the post- ecumenical Catholic teaching that Christianity was a con- tinuation of Judaism, not a new religion of love as set up against an obsolete religion of mere law. . 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