[ultima ratio]

This is nonsense. There is no new doctrine regarding the Jews. The Catholic Church can't invent doctrines in order to get along better with Jews or anybody else. It can't rescind official teachings which are binding on the faithful, no matter how politically correct it may seem to do so. Catholics, along with other Christians, are obliged to accept the evidence of the Gospels--which explains unequivocally that the chief priests and the Pharisees sought to arrest Jesus to have him eliminated. No public relations ploy by ADL can change this.

And while it is true that crimes have been perpetrated against the Jews on the part of some who have called themselves Christians, the Church itself has never sought to delegitimize Judaism in any way nor to preach anti-Semitism. This is a falsehood tantamount to slander. The ADL should know better. It is also speaking nonsense when it declares there was "no Jewish role" in the death of Jesus. Of course there was--and all Christians know it. But we do not blame the Jewish people themselves for what transpired. The death of Jesus was the fault of all of all of us. THAT has been the perennial teaching of the Church which ADL conveniently ignores.

[DPB101]

Every premise in this op-ed is false.

[dennisw]

And while it is true that crimes have been perpetrated against the Jews on the part of some who have called themselves Christians, the Church itself has never sought to delegitimize Judaism in any way nor to preach anti-Semitism.

Is "the Church" the Roman Catholic Church? It has not preached anti Semitism at any time during the last 2000 years? What was the Inquisition? A mirage?

 

[dennisw]

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