Declaring that “the Church abhors and condemns anti-Semitism,” Cardinal Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster and Catholic Primate of England, issued a statement appealing to the Christian world to combat anti-Jewish prejudice.
“The cruel treatment of Jews at any time and in any land calls for the strongest condemnation,” the Cardinal stated, adding that “in every human heart the decent sentiments of justice and equity proclaim that the Jew is a fellow man and entitled to be treated as such: he is an innocent brother unless and until he commits a crime that is brought home to him by clear evidence.
“All these motives of religion and natural humanity have been discarded by the Jew-baiters in past times and in many lands,” Cardinal Hinsley continues. “But never and nowhere has the savagery of prejudice been so fiercely let loose as in Nazi Germany and in the Nazi-dominated countries during these last years of unexampled brutality.
“As we hope for goodwill and fair play for ourselves, we must insist on justice and compassion for all our fellow men,” the Archbishop concludes. “The Church abhors and condemns anti-Semitism.”
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