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To: annalex

Yes, I have a link. I posted it to you in Post 30.


37 posted on 01/12/2014 6:01:02 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide
Ah, thank you. Yes, I agree with the article in its positive part. I, too, find Nostra Aetate intentionally vague, and really inviting error.

My only disagreement is with this syllogism:

The Old Covenant … has never been revoked. This means that the goal of the conversion of the Jews is abandoned, and that their salvation as a people is embraced, setting aside forever the notion that their baptism is required.

This indeed allows some people to come down on Pope Francis as a ton of bricks each time he mentions that "never been revoked" or asks for plain civility with people of different religions. But the phrase in itself is true. The covenant with the Jews has not been revoked precisely because it has been fulfilled in the Church. We are the Israel; we have the covenant and they, the Jews should come to us.

It could be that Pope Francis is a "man of Nostra Aetate"; it could be that he is not; and it could be that he is somewhere in between. Judging by a few warm words toward the Jews, and a chance photograph in the vicinity of a menorah, -- which is our Christian obligation of charity, -- it is impossible to tell.

I also wholly agree that with the Pope his warm and loving personality tends to bubble over the top and I am sure that with time he will find a way to remain on clean doctrinal ground in his teaching.

38 posted on 01/12/2014 6:22:16 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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