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Remembered   Abraham Joshua Heschel is marching in line with
Martin Luther King Jr. and a number of other key civil rights
demonstrators. At the end of the demonstration, a journalist
asked Heschel to describe his feelings about marching with King.
He answered: "My feet were praying." Heschel was prominent as a
scholar, teacher and theologian, and widely respected because of
his numerous publications. He was also well known as a result of
his participation in Vatican II. Vatican II was the gathering in
the early 1960s during which the Catholic Church introduced many
significant internal changes. One of the changes included a
historical reckoning: a formal process was begun that would
eventually lead to the public announcement by the Church that
"the Jews" did not kill Christ. From his participation in
Vatican II, Heschel received the nickname from Catholics
throughout the world of "Father Abraham."  Recipient email: Your
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