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…Vatican Declaration on Anti-Semitism Called 'Ambiguous' by Paul Blanshard Paul Blanshard, whose criticisms of the Catholic Church in his ear- lier writings have been among the severest on record…
…, offers import- ant and interesting analyses of the recent Vatican Council declarations on Jews and others, in his "Paul Blanshard on Vatican II" published by Beacon Press. In spite of many "personal mani…
…-Council statement from Italy's right-wing leader, Bishop Luigi Carli of Segni, that Judaism 'carries in fact always with it, one :would say by its very nature, the judgment of condem- nation by God.' " Blanshard…
… charges that Paul's "abrupt disraissal of the Coun- cil's majority views on two oc- casions at the end of the third session in 1964, when religious liberty and Jewish relations were being debated, made him…
… there was no . suggestion that any effort be made to eliminate the anti-Sem- itism of present rules." On this score Blanshard writes: "Perhaps the Fathers reasoned that they had had enough Jewish…
… headaches in the discussion of the declaration on the Jews. In any case, they had more to be ashamed of in Church rules about Jewish-- Catholic marriages than in the rules about mixed marriages with baptized…
…-page chapter devoted to the Jews traces the history of Catholic- Jewish relations, dating back to Pope John's having turned over consideration of a statement on the Jews to Cardinal Bea's Secretariat for…

















































