VATICAN CITY (CNN) -- 'In a joyous Christmas message to the world, Pope John Paul II hailed the Jews as the people who gave Jesus Christ to mankind.
"The birth of the Messiah! It is the central event in the history of humanity," John Paul said in his homily. "The whole human race was awaiting it with a vague presentiment; the chosen people awaited with explicit awareness."
His gesture to the Jewish people, whom he called Christianity's "elder brothers," carried a special resonance because it came the day after a Hanukkah candle was lighted at the Vatican for the first time in history.'
He must be even more senile than I thought. Doesn't mythology state that "God" was the one who gave the world Jesus?