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...Paul II is in the church's relationship to the Jewish people. Again, the shift began with Vatican II. The 1965 declaration Nostra Aetate famously renounced the "Christ killer" slander, the Gospel charge that the Jews are guilty of the murder of Jesus. This was the source of Christian contempt for the Jewish people, a tradition that the Nazis brought to the perverse conclusion of the Holocaust...
...millennium, John Paul II expressed sorrow for the two historic crimes of Christianity--the use of coercion in defense of the truth and the tradition of contempt for the Jewish people. But this Pope did more than say he was sorry. He put in place new structures of belief and practice, affirming peace and advancing tolerance, changing the Roman Catholic Church forever...
FOOTBALL SPOILSPORT Dartmouth fans are kicking up a storm over an admissions dean's letter expressing contempt for college football. Some want him fired. The team's 1-9 season didn't help...
...Washington and in foreign capitals, when the President last week announced John Bolton as his pick for the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N. A senior State Department official whose 24-year career in and out of government has been defined by a self-professed distaste for treaties, contempt for diplomatic niceties and hostility toward the U.N., Bolton was described by a liberal think tank as "possibly the least appropriate person in U.S. public life" for the job. Said a Republican Senator: "Is the President spoiling for a fight...
...believing in universities as places where everybody, particularly minorities, could be free of the old impediments and everyone had access to all these wonderful things. But I have since come to regard universities as much less reliable allies. My critics see extreme moral indignation. I have much more contempt for the disproportionately great pretensions and claims about their courage and beliefs than any real anger. But I didn't really write the book to settle accounts. My passion comes out of the sense of what's important and the freedom that comes through study and the concern for young persons...