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...edict which a Nixon press aide violated last week by issuing a release which quoted an Israeli newspaper's call for U.S. Jews to vote for Nixon because he would do so much for Israel. Last week three former leaders of Jewish organizations objected to "this shocking appeal for votes from Americans of Jewish faith...
...were 4,000,-ooo of them in a population of 16 million. For nearly 40 years the two faiths were embroiled in bloody conflict, symbolized by the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of August 1572, during which perhaps as many as 10,000 Huguenots were murdered. The Edict of Nantes (1598) gave France's Protestants freedom of worship and academic and political rights, but by 1661 the Roman Catholic Church and the crown had made headway in whittling down Protestant liberty, and in 1685 the Edict was revoked. Within a few weeks 2,000 churches were razed...
...years (from 1715 to 1760) Calvinist Antoine Court labored to restore French Protestantism -organizing local and national synods, setting up a divinity school in Lausanne, Switzerland to supply pastors to the underground churches. Finally, two years before the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was forced to sign an edict of tolerance for Protestantism. The revolution-which in turn bitterly persecuted the Catholics-eventually turned that tolerance into equality...
Although Archbishop Ritter sternly warned that no Catholic student under any circumstances is exempt from the provisions of his pastoral letter, Catholics are bound to this edict only as "a matter of conscience," in deference to the spiritual authority of the archbishopric. Moreover, some Catholic clergymen are not convinced that attendance at one of the 258 Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. is an automatic guarantee that a Catholic student's faith will be strengthened...
...Vatican put Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ on the Index of forbidden books. In that novel, due for fall publication in the U.S., Judas emerges as a hero since he helps Christ to fulfill his mission of redeeming mankind. At the time of the Vatican edict, Kazantzakis fired off a telegram to the Committee of the Index containing a sentence from Tertullian: "Ad tuum, Domine, tribunal, appello" ("At your tribunal, Lord, I make my appeal...