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...most significant of all council documents is the declaration on non-Christian religions, which exonerates the Jews of the ancient charge of deicide for their role in the death of Christ. At Paul's suggestion, the deicide clause has now been replaced by a more ambiguous phrasing???apparently to placate Italian conservatives, who insist that it runs counter to the sense of Scripture, and to satisfy anxious Middle Eastern Catholics, who mysteriously see in exoneration the first step toward Vatican recognition of Israel...
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