The statement issued by the Vatican, explaining last week’s Passion Sunday Lenten sermon delivered by Pope Paul VI, was described by most Orthodox spokesmen here this weekend as “very feeble.” The Israeli press, as a whole, expressed fears that the Pontiff’s statement, putting the blame for the killing of Jesus on the Jews, weakens the Declaration on Relations with the Jewish People, adopted last November at the third session of the Ecumenical Council, in the Vatican. The Pope’s stand was seen here as a reversion to Roman Catholic attitudes of the past.
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