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High Spirits is better as a showcase than a show. Such improbable sprites as Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes exist in the imagination of no playwright, not even Noel Coward, who wrote Blithe Spirit and directs this musical derived from...
Proposed by German-born Augustin Cardinal Bea, the "Jewish Chapter" reflects Bea's concern over the way the Nazis were able to misuse Christian beliefs in oppressing Jews. By absolving the Jewish people of the sole responsibility for Christ's crucifixion, the chapter, Bea believes, would remove the key theological rationale for such pogroms. In itself, this aspect of the chapter could only meet with approval from most of the council members...
...Bea and his chapter appeared to be in a strong position: Pope Paul VI was reportedly angered when Radio Cairo cited The Deputy-a West German play that accuses Pope Pius XII of tacitly approving Hitler's anti-Semitism-as evidence that Catholics share Moslem hatred of the Jews. To Paul, the Jewish chapter appears opportune. Though the chapter is being used politically by both Arabs and Israelis, both Bea and Pope Paul have been assured that there will be no overt repression of Christians in Arab lands...
Judaism's Response. If Bea's chapter makes a gracious bow to the Jews, what should be the Jewish response? That question came under painful scrutiny last week in Chicago at the Biennial General Assembly meeting of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism in the Western Hemisphere. U.A.H.C. President Maurice Eisendrath seemed to offer an ecumenical balm of his own. "Interreligious understanding is not a one-way street," he said. "What about our Jewish attitudes toward Christendom, toward Jesus especially?" Eisendrath called for a reassessment of Christ's role...
...Karl Rahner; in his encyclicals he tried to find a new, less austere language of teaching that would speak to modern man. Montini, trained in the ways of scholastic thought, is more conservative by temperament, yet also seems to be tolerant toward the new. Through Augustin Cardinal Bea, he notified Scriptural scholars at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and Gregorian University that there would be no more arbitrary monita (warnings) issued by conservative theologians at the Holy Office...