Word: non-christian
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...justice. A decree On Ecumenism, committing Catholicism to work for Christian unity, for the first time acknowledges Protestant bodies as churches that share God's grace and favor. The declaration On Religious Liberty states the right of all men to freedom of conscience in worship. Another declaration, On Non-Christian Religions, condemns anti-Semitism and asserts that the Jewish people as a whole cannot be accounted guilty of Christ's death...
...mixed society, "the emphasis is to bypass our differences and get away from the controversy of Christmas," says Professor Dan Dodson, chairman of the sociology department at New York University. "We try to water down the holiday to make it less barbed for people of non-Christian faiths, and this results in a mass culture which erodes away sharp differences...
...council also gave final approval to five more documents, which were then formally promulgated by Pope Paul: the declaration on non-Christian religions, which clears the Jews of responsibility for Christ's death, plus decrees on the pastoral office of bishops, on Christian education, on the renewal of religious life, and on priestly training...
...vote of 1,763 to 250, the bishops at the fourth session of the Second Vatican Council last week approved this statement as the official teaching of the church. In accepting the declaration on non-Christian religions, the bishops made unmistakably clear the intention of the church to risk no further charge of antiSemitism. Also taking into account the Jewish suffering under the Nazis, the declaration deplored "hatred persecutions, displays of antiSemitism. directed against Jews at any time and by anyone," and rejected any catechetical teaching or preaching that might counter this view...
...chief of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Between the second and third sessions of the council, however, conservatives succeeded in getting a new draft that softened the references to Judaism and incorporated them within the framework of a longer declaration outlining the church's attitude toward other non-Christian faiths-including Islam. This draft was denounced violently by a number of cardinals, notably Boston's Richard Gushing, and was sent back to the secretariat for further revision. The bishops then approved in principle another draft that once more expressly said that neither the Jews of today...