Posted on 04/05/2022 5:37:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
In the question and answer session that followed the lecture, Forte was challenged on his claims about not preaching the Gospel to the Jews.
ROME (LifeSiteNews) — An Italian archbishop has proposed that Jews do not need to accept faith in Christ, and for this reason, all Christian churches should “end the active mission to the Jews,” thus contradicting Christ’s words in the Gospel and Catholic doctrine.
On Monday, April 4, during an interreligious-dialogue conference held at the Angelicum in Rome, Archbishop Bruno Forte, of the diocese of Chieti-Vasto in Italy, delivered a lecture on the perspective of the Catholic Church on Judaism and its claim to possession of the Holy Land.
The conference was jointly sponsored by the Cardinal Bea Center for Judaic Studies of the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelicum. The Chief Rabbi of Rome was present along with other rabbis, priests, and scholars.
Forte’s lecture, based on the 2016 document Between Jerusalem and Rome and the Vatican II text Nostra Aetate, focused on the claim of the Jews regarding the possession of the land of Palestine. Following a common thread among those who engage in Jewish-Catholic “interreligious dialogue,” Forte proposed, among other things, that in order to foster Judaic-Christian relations that are purified of “every form of anti-Semitism,” Christians should no longer hold and preach that Jews must accept faith in Christ as normative for salvation.
Joining Jewish voices from the 2016 declaration Between Jerusalem and Rome, Forte declared, quoting the document, “We call upon all Christian denominations that have not yet done so to follow the example of the Catholic Church and excise anti-Semitism from their liturgy and doctrines, to end the active mission to the Jews, and to work toward a better world........
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Unlike us gentiles, Jews have an unbreakable covenant with God which predates the new testament by centuries. Yes they are that special.
Neither do you have to accept God. God has to accept you. But can you have one without the other?
Keep in mind Jesus was a Jew. He came to save his people and then they killed him. Disciples were sent out into the world to save the rest of us.
Focus. If you prefer not to accept Jesus, then that is between you, Jesus, and God.
I recall reading that Pope John Paul II, as a young priest after WW II in Poland, placed a Jewish orphan with a Jewish family. I don’t think he would have done this if their salvation were not possible.
The Jews didn’t kill Jesus.
Jesus was Crucified, a Roman form of death. By Romans.
The Jewish form of death at that time was Stoning to Death.
Sometimes being nice to not hurt someone’s feelings isn’t the best course of action even if its the easiest. All need Jesus to be saved.
Bruno Forte is an apostate. He rejects the Gospel as does Bergoglio:
Against Pilate’s defense of Jesus Christ: the Jews replied “Crucify Him”.
They already believe muslims dont. They believe muslims can be saved because “they love Mary”.
Amd before you say they dont, my former parish priest personally told me this. Hes unsure hes going to go to heaven but he believes this about muslims.
Mat 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Mat 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Mat 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
I’M SAVED! I’M SAVED!
Wait... Am I?
That's as false a statement as I've ever seen!
Why do you thing the curtain in the Temple was rent in two from top to bottom upon Christ's death?
Correct. All people Jew and Gentile had a part. Almost as if we all had to have a part.
But the method and every nail driven in was Roman.
Answer your own question.
Why?
And every stone throne at St. Stephen’s stoning, the first protomartyr, was thrown by a Jew.
What’s your point?
For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea; for you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all men.
— 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
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