[kitkat]

So, this writer is saying that BEFORE the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic church claimed that Jews were Christ killers. IT DID NOT! I was a child in school before the Second Vatican Council, and very strongly remember the nuns teaching us that the crucifixion was pre-ordained in the bible, and that the Jews were innocent. Herod, on the other hand..........

People who have seen the movie say that there is NO anti-Semitism in it. This writer is a people-divider.

[pizzalady]

I was also in school before the Second Vatican Council, and the nuns who taught absolutely left the impression that the Jews killed Christ.

I recall being confused over the matter because my father had many Jewish friends. When I questioned my father, he told me that the sins of the world placed Jesus on the cross and that He chose to pay the price for all. Since Jesus and all his disciples were Jewish, we could do no less than accept and love Jews as we did others.

Since my father was a trustworthy man, I accepted his views over anything the priests or nuns taught.

It is then that I also began to question other things taught in Catholic school. For if the Pope was the infallible head of the church, how was it that different popes proclaimed different views? How could they all be infallible?

As I got older and actually read the Bible for myself, it was evident that Jews are Jews (a people chosen to be set apart) exactly because Jesus was to be born a Jew. And all the circumstances were set in motion to come together in that time and that place in order to fulfill prophecy.