(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Jews are still the “Chosen People” in the eyes of the Catholic church according to the wording employed in the Vatican decree abolishing the Friends of Israel Society, a missionary organization established two years ago for the purpose of promoting better relations between the Catholic church and Jews but which developed later into a missionary agency spreading religious antagonism.
The Rome correspondent of the “Neue Freie Presse” quotes today the text of the decree of the Congregation of the Sacred Office dissolving the society. It develops that the reason for the dissolution was the disclosure that the society has indulged in anti-Semitic activities.
The Catholic church has ever been favorably disposed toward the Jewish people, the decree states. The Holy See has ever rejected in the strictest manner every manifestation of racial hatred, even that kind of hatred towards God’s Chosen People which appears in the guise of anti-Semitism, the decree states.
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