Posted on 04/29/2009 7:47:03 AM PDT by NYer
Damned if you; damned if you don’t ... first the Church was accused of not doing enough to save the Jews, now it is accused of converting 2000 children. At what point will someone say “Thank you for risking your lives to save ours”.
The tragic legacy of the holocaust goes on and on.
Broken lives, broken families, broken hearts endlessly.
Jews who are Catholic? Catholics that are Jews? Its all a mater of religious up bringing, its not a nationality. They are believers, leave them be. Why stirr up the pot? (Rhet.)
Agreed. Maybe this particular group should ask American (liberal) Jews (78%) why they voted for a guy named Hussein who does flybys in NYC to terrify the citizens for his Saudi bosses.
The Pope should be spending his time smacking down the liberal American Catholic church and their liberal universities.
That’s easy. Our very own John Kerry.
I agree. Also why is it the Catholic church’s responsibility to find these families?
Maybe they are missing out on their portion of the World Banking System.
LOL!
Jews, for the most part, believe that if you have Jewish parents, you are born a Jew “automatically.” It’s not a matter of religious upbringing, but of ethnicity...magritte
“We believe that hundreds, perhaps thousands of Jews and their offspring can be discovered if the Pope makes an unequivocal announcement while in Israel that every Catholic has an obligation to reveal the Jewish roots of those saved from the Holocaust.”
So Rabbi, you don’t actually KNOW if any of these children were raised Catholic, do you?
God help us all.
Well, duh. It's a bit dangerous to tell a young child something that if acidentally blurted out would get him killed.
The professional clergy on both sides have their axes to grind. It’s not surprising to find that the Rabbis want it all done now and the Priests have an endless list of reasons why it can’t be done. As far as the individuals go, if you were orphaned in Holland in the early 40’s and wound up being raised by nuns, you either a) put 2 and 2 together by now and made your decision, b) are an idiot or c) don’t care one way or the other.
Exactly. The LESS these children knew, the safer they and the families caring for them were.
I would imagine that after the war, many families thought of these children as their own and struggled with just how much and what to tell the children, especially after a year or two when it became clear that their parents were probably dead.
And don’t forget that it’s entirely possible that many of the individual don’t WANT to know.
Let’s say you were born in Belgium in 1939, your family placed you with Christian friends when you were less than a year old. You were raised in the Belgian countryside and have NO MEMORY of your parents or the war. You have a wonderful life and family growing up. When you are a teenager you might notice that you don’t really look like anyone in your family, but it doesn’t really matter. Eventually, you pretty much “figure it out,” but you also realize that nothing will be gained from bringing it up and that it would probably be unbelievably painful for your family (that raised you) to discuss.
What do they believe? In Europe most likely nothing, hence anything.
Still, I think they have a right to know their heritage, just as I believe that all adopted children have the right to know their heritage.
If they truly believe the Gospel, they won't convert, and if the do convert, they weren't saved to begin with.
I read a while back some prophesy that said if a person born Jewish and having converted to the Catholic Church ever became pope, it would spell the end of the Church. Has anyone ever heard that or did I just happen on some nutty writing? Thanks, AR
You mean like Peter?
Oh bravo! Ping for watching :-)
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