Well, my FRiend, before you get “bent out of shape” about the Catholics, lets “look at the whole story and not bits and pieces.”
Take a closer look to the Second Vatican Council and its intent. In this context, the following statement stands out:
“A deepening Catholic appreciation of the eternal covenant between God and the Jewish people, together with a recognition of a divinely given mission to Jews to witness to God’s faithful love, leads to the conclusion that campaigns that target Jews for conversion to Christianity are no longer theologically acceptable in the Catholic Church,”
May the Lord Bless you. You are one of the chosen.
You are gravely mistaken. To begin with, the statement you quoted is NOT from the Second Vatican Council and does NOT reflect authentic Catholic doctrine. What the Council DOES say is that “the Church is the new people of God.”
Second, although the Jews have a covenant with God, it’s not the one you’re thinking of. God has replaced the covenant with Moses with a new and better covenant, which applies to all the world, including the Jews. If the Mosaic covenant were salvific, there would have been no need for a savior at all.
Because campaigns for large-scale Jewish conversion to Christianity are likely to be misunderstood and counter-productive, the Church makes a prudential judgment that they are ill-advised at this time. But it is quite wrong (and contrary to Holy Scripture) to conclude from this that they are theologically unacceptable. Do you suppose that when the Church prayed over the centuries for the conversion of the Jews she was in error, that the aspirations of the Body of Christ which is one in both space and time were somehow different then than now? I fear you have been deceived by the “hermeneuitic of rupture” of which we’re warned by the Holy Father, which falsely implies that today we’re somehow in a new church to which the Church of former ages is no longer relevant.
The Church is the universal instrument of salvation intended for all the world, and the Christian gospel is for all, Jews included. You are not doing the Jews any favors by assuring them that they’re perfectly fine in their “chosenness” as they are.