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This article is from Ha'aretz, and there isn't a single "Catholic intellectual" included as a source for the statement. There is nothing in the article to suggest that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church had anything to do with this statement.

Are you saying it would upset or anger you if it did?

[Alberta's Child]

Are you saying it would upset or anger you if it did?

No.

But it would be utterly irrational for the Catholic Church to issue a statement equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

That would be sort of like saying that anyone who opposes the Irish Republican Army is anti-Irish.