[Former Fetus]

The best present the Pope could give the Israeli people would be to announce the soon naming of a committee composed of both Catholic and Jewish people, who would go into the Vatican vaults and answer once and for all whether the Temple vessels are stored there or not.

As for King David's Tomb, it should be enough to say that he was a Hebrew King, not Roman!

[who_would_fardels_bear]

While they’re in there they can look through all the porn that the Vatican is supposedly collecting ... and Jesus’s wedding ring ... and His son’s cradle ... and ...

[Vendome]

Hold a grudge long?

[jjotto]

Councilman?

Ooooh! What a snub!

[ansel12]

Everyone should go to their pastor and priest and ask if their denomination is holding world treasures, looted from people.

[yarddog]

Anyone who uses BCE and CE instead of the much older and much more widely spread BC and AD, which is clearly meant to attack Christians, does not deserve butkis from Christian.

Even so if it can be determined that certain things were with the temple in the time of Solomon or in Jerusalem in the time of David, then I would say return it.

[big'ol_freeper]

LOL. Moron.

[Ezekiel]

"I won't come, unless (the Pope) will bring in his suitcase the treasures of the Jewish people that were stolen by his predecessors, treasures that today are located in the Vatican's basement," remarked King.

Several treasures from the destroyed Holy Temple in Jerusalem are believed to have been brought to Rome; indeed the Arch of Titus in Rome, erected shortly after the death of Emperor Titus in 81 CE, clearly depicts Roman soldiers bringing to Rome the golden candelabrum and other Temple artifacts.

He's going to need a big suitcase.

[vladimir998]

” Jews have requested access to the Vatican’s storehouses to ascertain whether the treasures are still there.”

Proving that at least some Jews are not too bright.

[cothrige]

It hardly seems to me that the looting of these items and their carrying to Rome in the first century A.D. is any reason to suspect that the Holy See has them. After all, the Church had no influence in the first centuries, and when it did become influential there was nothing like the Vatican of today to receive these kinds of items. I really see no reason to believe that such treasures would be entrusted to the local bishop of that city when they would already have had to be housed somewhere for centuries. No, this just sounds like another silly conspiracy theory. How do we know that the Vandals or Visigoths didn’t carry this stuff away during one of their sacks of the city?

[Alberta's Child]

"I won't come, unless (the Pope) will bring in his suitcase the treasures of the Jewish people that were stolen by his predecessors, treasures that today are located in the Vatican's basement," remarked King.

Was this Rodney King who said this? LOL.

[fatima]

According to Lttw he will be dead,
Mary
A moment will come when I will take my beloved son, the Pope. I will walk with him to Jerusalem. For the second time I will go to Jerusalem to witness the death of a son.

When this happens the eyes of the Jewish people will see for the first time. They will see in the Pope’s death what the Catholic Church has done for them. There will be no mistake about which Church has blessed them, because it will have been done by the head of the Church and by the greatest of sacrifices. Israel will embrace the Catholic Church.

All Catholics will welcome Israel because all will have seen the decision of the Holy Father (the bishop dressed in white) to offer his life for Israel. The union between the Catholic Church and Israel will be a union of hearts brought about by the events that the whole world will have has seen and can never forget.

Comment: By the Pope’s death, Israel’s eyes will be opened to the Catholic Church and how Catholic hearts will be opened to Israel. Both happen from the same event.
http://www.locutions.org/
Do I believe this website-no

[Veggie Todd]

I Won't Greet The Pope Till He Returns Jewish Treasure

Did he steal it from someone's coffin?

[eddie willers]

Relief from Titus' Arch.

[SuziQ]

Maybe the Vatican is worried about Jerusalem being taken by radical Islam, in which case NONE of the treasures would ever be seen again. They’d be destroyed as were the giant Buddhas in Afghanistan, because they were the work of infidels!

[SJackson]

I'm sure the Pope would be glad to meet Councilman King, but I doubt he knows who he is.

The Vatican certainly holds Jewish artifacts it would be nice to have access to, whether the spoils of Jerusalem might be questionable.

The Councilman is correct they were displayed at the Temple of Peace. Common sense, the Temple of Peace was built to house the booty, of course it was there. Built by Vespasian, who was not a Pope. It was a pagan Temple. Don't know if it had a basement, probably not.

Near the end of the 2nd century it burned down. Burning down means the inside, not the marble walls. Some of which still stand. It was Rome's art museum, in a sense. Given the fact the Constantine ruled in the early 4th century, and began construction of the old St. Peters, if the booty survived the fire and was credibly seen in the 5th century, imo the implication would be that it was viewed as a Roman artifact, not Christian.

That's not to say the loot couldn't have ended up at the Vatican, Presuming the Vandals didn't value gold, or missed the loot of Jerusalem while sacking Rome