Msgr. Ramselaer, a Dutch Catholic Bishop, has come out against the Pope’s position on Jerusalem as “unjust, and contrary to the spirit of the Ecumenic Council.” The statement was made by the Dutch prelate in the course of an interview published here today by the Jewish weekly of Antwerp, “Belgisch Israelitisch Weekblad.”
Msgr. Ramselaer has just returned to Amsterdam from Brussels where he participated in the meeting of the Consultative Committee for Judeo-Christian Cooperation which took place last week. Bishop Ramselaer is a director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, a former president of Catholic Council for Israel and the author of an essay on Jerusalem in which he takes a favorable view of the town’s development under Israeli rule. He has been most outspoken in his criticism of the Vatican’s Middle East positions.
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