(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
A missionary attempt of the Catholic Church directed at the Jews may be made at the Ecumenical Council when it is reopened, according to reports from Rome to the news service of the National Catholic Welfare Conference here.
The relation of the Catholic Church to the Jewish people and the efforts of the Catholic Church for missionary propaganda among the Jews were discussed in Rome in a special lecture at St. Peter’s Club, according to a despatch from Rome to the news service of the National Catholic Welfare Conference here.
The lecture was arranged by the Eucharistic League for Social Peace, a Catholic missionary institution, the aim of which is to promote “a Christian Peace between individuals, families, different classes of society and nations.” The League, which was established in 1914 by Pope Benedict XV was economically recognized and established in Rome and raised to a Primaria in June, 1925.
In connection with this discussion, it was recalled in leading Catholic Circles that the Ecumenical Council of 1870 had a proposal, bearing the signatures of 510 Catholic bishops, several of them Americans, concerning the Jews. This proposal “begged the Council to send a paternal invitation to the nation of Israel to recognize Jesus Christ as the Messiah, thus fulfilling and crowning the Mosaic religion, without changing it.”
This document, unanimously accepted by the commission to which it was assigned, was never discussed at the Council proper because of the abrupt suspension of that gathering. However, it has been said that when the Council is reopened and there has been much talk of reopening it, of late, the proposal might still be discussed.
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