The Vatican and Two Millenia of Denial
The far-reaching effects of the kind of anti-Semitism fostered by the New Testament-attributing to all Jews of all times everywhere the presumed actions of a few first century Jewish leaders-took an interesting turn with the 1965 action of the Second Vatican Council. This church council took place against the background of a long history of Roman Catholic identification of the Jews as an "accursed people" and a "deicide race." It absolved, as far as the Roman Catholic Church was concerned, the
Zalman Kravitz