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Ten Ways
to Avoid Anti-Judaism in Holy Week
“ This article was published in Catholic Outlook (Parramatta Diocese, 23 March 2024) shortly
after I posted it on Lightof Torah.net (19 March 2024). It was circulated among members of sta”te and national Councils of Christians and Jews in
19 March 2024
Australia, and shared via a Jewish newsfeed.
‘The Jews killed Jesus.’ For much of church history, this erroneous, unjust and lethal accusation of Jewish collective guilt held sway among Christian populations. It was never defined as doctrine. However, as a sentiment and pattern of thought, the deicide charge (Jews accused of being ‘Christ killers’ or murderers of God) caused grievous harm to Jewish lives. It was repudiated by the Second Vatican Council in its Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate, 4:
What happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today ...
The Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures. All should
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