The recently promulgated Catholic Church doctrine, repudiating the ancient charge that the Jews are collectively guilty of the death of Jesus, is “irreversible” because, from now on, it is a “doctrinal” statement, the Rev. Walter M. Abbott, a prominent American Jesuit, declared here in a lecture this weekend. Father Abbott is an associate editor of America, a Jesuit weekly.
He said that the statement regarding relations between the Catholic Church and the Jewish religion cannot be undone in the future because it calls for “teaching” of the new doctrine. Hereafter, he declared, any Catholic who uses biblical phrases to denounce the Jews as decides or as an accursed people will be a heretic in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
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