[Zack Nguyen]

He was not calloused, cowardly or hypocritical or an anti-semite, but he was an accurate embodiment of his churches very long standing overt dotrinal inability, which I have detailed here, to see jews as worthy of the same moral regard as christians.

If the church has a "doctrinal inability" to see Jews as worthy as Christians, then be assured that it is a human failing on the part of some Christians, and not a teaching that has been given from Christ.

I am an evangelical, and it would be hard to overstate the level of devotion that my brethren have for Jews and Israel. We want to witness to them and help ISrael when we can, mostly because we recognize Jesus as a Jewish Messiah, and Christianity as a distinctly Jewish faith.

[donh]

.He (PIUS XII) was not calloused, cowardly or hypocritical or an anti-semite, but he was an accurate embodiment of his churches very long standing overt dotrinal inability, which I have detailed here, to see jews as worthy of the same moral regard as christians.

If the church has a "doctrinal inability" to see Jews as worthy as Christians, then be assured that it is a human failing on the part of some Christians, and not a teaching that has been given from Christ.

You and your bretheren clearly have a good heart about this, but my question is--what will prevent us from going back to reading Matthew just as it is written, once the holocaust is just a dim footnote in history books? Please go back to post #52 of this thread and think about the dilemma with a bit more of an eye for the potential for renewed agony that hides in the details of the Gospels. In the long run, there is no point in being good, if you also aren't being smart. God gave us a brain, as well as a heart. If the Catholic church can wrestle with this problem out in the open, everyone else can too.