Vatican Decree On Jews Welcomed
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) 1 TEL AVIV, Oct. T 7. The president of the World Jewish Congress, 'Dr. Nahum Goldmann, said today that the Vatican Council’s declaration absolving the Jews from collective guilt for Christ’s death did away with the basis for many persecutions by the Catholic Church.
The Jews would judge the declaration’s importance primarily by the seriousness with which it was implemented, and how much it would determine the future attitude of the Church, he said. In Rome a spokesman for the international Jewish organisation, B’nai B’rith, hailed the Council’s declaration on Jews and other nonChristians as an “act of historical justice.” Dr. Joseph Lichten, the director of the Inter-Cultural Affairs Department of the
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, said that the declaration would help to eliminate prejudice and discrimination.
He said the council's declaration had a particularly positive meaning for Jews all over the world.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30884, 18 October 1965, Page 15
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