ps: and once again, I am NOT even thinking of trying to defend all the many changes or modernizations that are commonly associated with “Vatican II”...
I was only attempting to respond to the one limited area of the Church’s relationship with her profoundly Jewish origins, foundations and “elder brothers in faith” the Jewish people.
There are fascinating and complex theological arguments true, but since the Church Magesterium and, I would respectfully submit, a fair and careful reading of holy scripture are mostly in accord on them....this is all I was trying to respond to. I believe, and let’s just say this is my humble opinion, is that any continuation of anti-Semitism would only have rotted out the Church even further, for Church history proved it was a terrible, terrible cancer at the very heart of Catholic theology. Causing tremendous distortion of even Jesus’ teachings, message if you will, and of course horrible human suffering. Again, just my reading of things, including the Magesterium’s many teachings on the matter.
The rest of Vatican 2? I leave all that in your capable hands! Blessings, fhc
FHC..the issue is not anti-semitism. What individual Catholics do (even those in the clergy) has nothing do with Church teaching.
None of the Church teachings were “anti-semitic”. The Church has never taught to hate Jews. However, it never taught to respect the Jewish religion which REJECTS our Lord and Savior either (and with Vatican II it most certainly does). The Jews can not be saved without accepting Jesus Christ in his Catholic Church. Don’t you see the difference here? They do not have a path to salvation unless that path is conversion to the Catholic Faith.