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To: TNdandelion; Cicero
This is very short-sighted.

Career opportunities abound in the Roman Catholic Church for Jewish converts, over the centuries many have become Abbots, Bishops, Archbishops and Cardinals. Recently, a convert was the Archbishop of Paris! Not bad!

19 posted on 08/22/2009 9:41:22 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Congratulations Obama Voters! You are not prejudiced. Unpatriotic, maybe. Dumb definitely.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

As a Catholic, I would have to say that it’s simply impossible to give up on a whole class of people and say that we won’t touch them for fear of offending somebody.

Conversion cannot be forced. But some Jews have been persuaded that this is the right way for them. And why should they not have that choice? It’s better than abandoning their religion and becoming leftist Israel-haters, as so many of them have done.

It seems unlikely that—at least until the end of the world, when who knows what happens?—Jews will simply cease to exist because Catholics have converted all of them. Many more Jews are lost through intermarriage and secularization and leftist ideology that has nothing to do with the Covenant, than have been converted to the Church. And the Church wishes to be Israel’s ally and friend—which is more than you can say about Islam or the forces of leftist secularization.

On the other hand, if religious Jews feel that God has called them to be Jews and to obey the Covenant, that is also their right, and a virtuous course for them to take. The Church supports that right.


20 posted on 08/23/2009 8:16:28 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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