Reaffirm our dedication to furthering the course taken by the Roman Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965): ‘reading the signs of the times’ in the light of the Gospel;

Express our conviction that dialogue with other religions and spiritual traditions is an important aspect of the heritage of the Council, and that dialogue with Jews is a special obligation ‘since the spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews is… so great’, as the declaration of the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions, Nostra aetate testifies;

Stress that facing and confessing the responsibility of Catholics, their leaders and their Church for major atrocities and catastrophes in human history, is an important aspect of this new course taken by the Council; and that Nostra aetate’s message that ‘the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews… decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone’, is credible only if accompanied by repentance over what has been said and done in the past;

State that, given the fact that many who live in conflict with what is presented as official teaching find a deaf ear with the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, we are extremely uncomfortable with the cancellation of the excommunication of the bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, that rejects the Second Vatican Council in general and Nostra aetate in particular, and whose leaders and representatives have repeatedly defended the idea that all Jews, including the ones living today, are responsible for the death of Jesus Christ unless they explicitly confess him as the Messiah, and that the Jews are justly punished by God through their ongoing history of persecution and suffering.