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There is no need to read minds. Your posts are very clear.

For hundreds of years, the Catholic Church taught through its ordinary universal magisterium that the Jews, after rejecting Christ, are no longer the Chosen people!

Suddenly, the Church was wrong all that time...and you believe that.

Someday you will see.

I am persuaded that theological antisemitism is the mother's milk feeding those Catholics who want to follow Martin Luther but, so far, but reject Vatican II and linger on the fringe of the holy catholic apostolic church in word.

How odd to see an erstwhile Catholic disavowing blessed Saint John Paul II and a Jew praising him.

As we approach the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate - the ground-breaking declaration of the Second Vatican Council which repudiated the deicide charge against Jews, reaffirmed the Jewish roots of Christianity and rejected anti-Semitism - we take note of the many positive changes within the Catholic Church with respect to her relationship with the Jewish People. These past forty years of our fraternal dialogue stand in stark contrast to almost two millennia of a "teaching of contempt" and all its painful consequences. We draw encouragement from the fruits of our collective strivings which include the recognition of the unique and unbroken covenantal relationship between God and the Jewish People and the total rejection of anti-Semitism in all its forms, including anti-Zionism as a more recent manifestation of anti-Semitism.

For its part, the Jewish community has evinced a growing willingness to engage in interreligious dialogue and joint action regarding religious, social and communal issues on the local, national and international levels, as exemplified in the new direct dialogue between the Chief Rabbinate in Israel and the Holy See. Further, the Jewish community has made strides in educational programming about Christianity, the elimination of prejudice and the importance of Jewish-Christian dialogue. Additionally, the Jewish community has become aware of, and deplores, the phenomenon of anti-Catholicism in all its forms, manifesting itself in society at large.

On the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, we declare our determination to prevent the reemergence of anti-Semitism which led to genocide and the Shoah. We stand together at this moment in time, following major international conferences on this problem, most recently in Berlin and at the United Nations in New York. We recall the words of Pope John Paul II that anti-Semitism is a sin against God and humanity.

I am persuaded that theological antisemitism

So the ordinary universal magisterium was teaching "theological anti-Semitism" for all those years? I am persuaded that those that charge others with "theological anti-semitism" do so only to keep them from teaching what the Church has always taught ....because they love the new religion.