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If you are passing-down truths over millenia of time, tradition is indispensible to assuring their integrity and guaranteeing that they are passed-on intact to succeeding generations.

Absolutely and these people would agree with you! The news headlines, listed below will surely attest to that. Same concept, different religious practice. Shalom!

Women who read Torah at Wall can be jailed
Ultra-Orthodox rabbis ban Internet use because of fear of being led into the profane
'They Say Ugly Things About Us'
As increasing numbers of ultra-Orthodox Jews leave the fold, the government is offering to help
Estranged from his sibling for years, a NEWSWEEK writer explores in an upcoming book why his brother took refuge in a new world: the ultra-Orthodox fringes of Judaism
Immodest dress attacked in Israel (Ultra-Orthodox clash with secular women)
FOCUS-Abuse hurled at Reform rabbis at Western Wall
Police prepare for possible violence at Israel rallies
Unorthodox prayers draw Orthodox anger at Wailing Wall

This is your usual nonsense. When we talk about Catholic tradition, we are talking about dogmas that transcend what women wear. We are talking about dogmas like the Real Presence and the Mass as an act of Propitiation for sins. And we are certainly talking about the need for a pope to observe the First Commandment.

Absolutely and these people would agree with you! ... Same concept, different religious practice. Shalom!

Absolutely! The Jews may be making a mistake by not accepting Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Redeemer. However, within the Jewish faith, which Jews are standing side-by-side with Catholics and other Christians to fight against the desecration of our culture? The Orthodox. Which Jews are leading the culture wars on the other side, always pushing the envelope of irreligion, vulgarity, secularisation and abortion? The Reform Jews who too often are indistinguishable from atheists or at best agnostics.

So if you are going to compare traditional Catholics to Orthodox Jews, here's one traditionalist who is happy to take that as a compliment. When I read writers like Isaac Bashevis Singer, I am moved by the description of the faith of these people which preserved them and by which they preserved not only their religion but their identity. I think, "If only Christians had a tenth of their faith and devotion, we would not be facing the cultural suicide that we see all around us."