Word: beas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest curial maneuver came to light in a letter that Augustin Cardinal Bea gloomily read out to the bishops and theologians who serve on the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Signed by Archbishop Pericle Felici, the council's secretary, the letter proposed that the somewhat lackluster declaration on anti-Semitism (TIME, Oct. 9), which a majority of bishops wishes to strengthen, should be reduced to a short chapter in the schema, De Ecclesia (On the Church). Felici also urged that a declaration on religious liberty be rewritten by a special committee of four bishops-three of them conservatives...
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...criticism could have been avoided. Last fall, Augustin Cardinal Bea, venerable head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, prepared a declaration denying that there was a Scriptural basis for condemning the entire Jewish people as "deicides" because some Jews were involved in the death of Jesus. Jews were generally pleased by Bea's draft, but between sessions it was rewritten by the Council's Coordinating Commission, which added a few sentences of praise for Islam and a vaguely worded hope for Jewish conversion; by implication, it reaffirmed the deicide charge by asserting that Jews...
Unfaithful to Christ. The council was well aware of the bitter international reaction to the revisions when Cardinal Bea rose to present the amended draft for discussion. Pointing out that Jesus and the Apostles were Jews themselves, Bea argued that the deicide charge had led to pogroms and persecutions. His argument was strongly taken up by U.S. prelates. "I ask, venerable brothers," pleaded Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, "whether we ought not to confess humbly before the world that Christians too frequently have not shown themselves as faithful to Christ in their relations with their Jewish brothers." Albert Cardinal...