[B Knotts]

I note that Mark Shea doesn't cite specific examples. As is often the case, he is arguing against a straw man.

He also engages in a rather uncharitable form of insinuation, suggesting that anyone critical of the Holy Father's ecumenism is really just an anti-Semite.

[RobbyS]

I suggest that people look at what the Holy Father has said about anti- semitism. During the interwar period, sentiments against the Jews everywhere in Europe was really vicious. To be sure, some of it had to do with bad behavior of some Jews, but has to be revisited to see that it infected even good men like Chesterton. The pope knows this,knows that it blinded the German people to the horrible implications of Nazi policy, to the fact that the Nazis did not just DISLIKE or DESPISE Jews but hated them as the devil hates God.