Commonweal, a Catholic weekly edited here by laymen, declared editorially that the Catholic Church will stand “condemned” if it fails to adopt finally the Declaration passed at the last session of the Ecumenical Council, repudiating the charge of deicide made historically against the Jewish people.
“It is shameful enough that the Church has taken two thousand years to come to grips with its guilt,” the Commonweal said. “This shame has been compounded by the long struggle with the Council to achieve a strong position…If the council fails, or if it equivocates, the Church will stand condemned. That judgment will be justly deserved.”
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