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Reading excerpts of the document shows the value the modern Church places on the equal treatment of all peoples. By definition, the document says, governments should protect human rights; countries that practice "institutionaized racism" are therefore illegitimate...
...apply to oneself a creed of acceptance and toleration such as Christianity espouses carries some responsibility with it. The history of Christians' attitudes towards race is especially troubling, and the new Church statement clarifies and emphasizes many Catholic ideas denouncing racism...
Anti-semitism has also been a problem in the Church for more than a millenia. It has its roots in the belief of some Christians that the Jewish religion, while still valuable in its doctrines, has been replaced by the word of Christ, who claimed to be the messiah of the Jews but was rejected by their leaders...
Recognizing the widespread nature of anti-Semitism in modern society, the new Church document condemns it as "the most tragic form that racist ideology has assumed in our century." In an attempt to dispel the myth that the Catholic Church was supposedly complacent in the face of Nazi racism, the document notes that Popes Pius XI and Pius XII condemned Nazi anti-Semitism in four official statements between...
...statement, which is not a papal encyclical but simply an advisory document put out by the Church's Pontifical Commission on Peace and Justice at the Pope's request, condemns South Africa by name for its apartheid system. It also calls on the South African regime to overcome the prejudices which motivate it so it may "build the future on the principle of the equal dignity of every person...