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Thread ID: 20109 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-09-09
2005-09-09 16:39 | User Profile
[url]http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/analysis_of_BenedictXVI%27s_visit_to_Synagogue.html[/url]
2005-09-09 18:56 | User Profile
And the saddest part of this spectacle is that he can kowtow until the cows come home and still the entire spectrum of Jewish politics, from the Orthodox to the communist, will jab and stab at him unrelentingly.
2005-09-13 22:59 | User Profile
Did anyone think he was going to be anything else...
2005-09-26 19:16 | User Profile
I'm beginning to think a good Pope will have to come from the Society of Saint Pius X. It may be the only way the Church and the Society can be reconciled. The Pope may even have to go into exile to get out the message that Rome has lost the faith, as predicted at LaSallette.
2005-09-26 23:32 | User Profile
From that first link:
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, ââ¬ÅCantate Domino,ââ¬Â 1441, ex cathedra: ââ¬ÅThe Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their livesââ¬Â¦.ââ¬Â
The Catholic Church unquestionably backtracked on this statement, ex cathedra though it was. Now the RCC has reinterpreted it by saying that many people who don't even consciously realize that they're members of the Catholic Church really are a part of it by virtue of following their consciences and God's law to the best of their knowledge. I don't have any documents handy relating to this new interpretation, but I've seen them. Others can look them up if they wish.
Actually, when I was still a Catholic, I preferred the new interpretation because it seemed very unfair to me that anyone should go to hell simply because he wasn't raised Catholic. Now that I no longer believe in hell, the issue is moot as far as I'm concerned. But the problem isn't so much religious as political. What the Jews believe really isn't the problem of Christians or anyone else. It's what they do (and get away with) that matters!
The Catholic Church, with about 1 billion members worldwide, is truly an enormous political force. When its highest leader bends over backward to kiss Jew butt, he sets a bad example to a staggering number of people. He's reinforcing the notion that non-Jews should genuflect before Jews and treat them with kid gloves because supposedly the Jews have always been wee little helpless victims from day one. If only the Pope would do as the Presbyterians have done and stand up to the Jews, at least in Israel! Anyone who cares about human rights can do no less.
2005-09-28 15:53 | User Profile
A whole bunch of mumbo-jumbo.