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Sta,—Rabbi S. Warshaw's letter on February 26 re- quired,. quite

another kind of answer from that Printed last week. Whether official Vatican opinion thought it betteropolicy to suppress or to ignore the Projeeted performance of The Representative in

irrelevant to the Rabbi's meaning, as is an cxict analysis of his statement that the Catholic Church has approved the spilling of generations Of Jewish blood. The fact is the Catholic Church has much. to answer for in her dealings with the race to which she owes her existence, and many Catholics must have been as embarrassed as I was at What Rabbi Warshaw rightly refers to as the patron- ising tpne of the recent utterances of the Vatican Council, on the Jews. The Vatican, he infers, has

a guild, conscience over Pius XII's refusal to con- demn the Nazis. One hopes that this is true, and might wish that the Catholic Church as a whole would admit to feelings of guilt about her age-old attitude of anti-semitism, for Where guilt is accepted, repentance and atonement can follow, and forgive- ness becomes possible.