Since the end of World War II, the Vatican has tried hard to make up for its centuries of attacks on the Jewish people, including the Crusades, the Inquisition, priest-incited pogroms, and theological claims that the Jews killed Jesus.
As a practicing Roman Catholic who has always been a proud and staunch supporter of Israel, I am appalled by the actions of Pope Francis in this matter (as well as many other major issues). I was proud to have personally met and talked with Saint Pope John Paul II in September 1995 at St. Peter's. This pope is quite the opposite of what John Paul II espoused and taught.
Popes are human beings. They commit sins. They make mistakes. They're not perfect. However, Francis takes the cake when it comes to all that and more. He is a disgrace to the Roman Catholic Church.
Francis was supposed to be a different kind of pope, just like Obama was supposed to be a different kind of POTUS. Both turned out to be morally-confused closeted Marxists and huge disappointments.
Obama stated he wanted to “transform” the United States. Apparently, this Pope wants to transform the Church. I’m a non-practicing Catholic who from time to time thinks of returning to church, but not under this Pope’s misguided leadership.
Judith, hang in there. It's got to get better. I am a "cradle Catholic," and I deplore what has happened to the church since Vatican II. I do not attend the "new mass" because it angers me. The faith I was taught to observe has been taken away from me in the name of "updating" the church. Francis has banned the Traditional Latin Mass, but it still exists -- if you can find a priest who knows how to offer it.
The Catholic Church has some good attributes, but they have also done some serious harm by covering their crimes and participating in the crimes of others.
Jesus was Jewish by birth but the New Testament is clear he didn't practice Judaism. He came to fulfill the law, not to live by it. He wasn't a Jewish Rabbi. He wasn't crucified because he was a "Jewish enemy of the Roman empire", the leaders of the area Jews DID participate in his Roman execution. He was viewed by the Jewish leaders as their enemy, an enemy of their system. Jesus didn't "live as a Jew and die as a Jew".
I appreciated the rest of your column but you might want to stay in your own lane when you clearly aren't well-educated on real Jesus history.
The New Testament is clear that he did in fact practice Judaism. He was called Rabbi, meaning teacher. He said that not one tiny mark of the Torah, called a yud, will pass away until all is fulfilled. The Last Supper was a Passover Seder. The New Testament also said he came to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Dedication, aka Hanukkah. He could never have claimed to be the Messiah if he didn’t practice Judaism. By the way I’m a Messianic Jew. I’m Jewish and I believe that Jesus is the Messiah.
My Methodist church left me. I sometimes wonder if I should find a Messianic Jewish Synagogue. I think as Christians, we should observe that which Christ observed, plus his birth and resurrection.
This is a dear friend of mine, Moran. He is an Israeli Jewish believer in Jesus and lives in Jerusalem. He would tell you that there are not a lot of messianic synagogues he would recommend but I love getting his weekly Torah commentaries.
…but fulfilled it. The Passover meal the night before his entry into Jerusalem was a different Passover and the fulfilling of the Old Testament. He was the Seder. It is his Bread of Life narrative. He is the Eucharist (Greek) the unleavened bread of life.
You need to read the Christian Bible, what you call the New Testament. It explains everything you don't know, which is everything you say. The only reason Christians don't practice Judaism is because Paul told them not to. But Jesus did. This is obvious even to the Gospel writers. Jesus read Torah, knew what it said, preached as Rabbis did - though with ideas one can find today in Reform Judaism - ,made the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem three times a year, regularly went to synagogue,his followers kept practicing Judaism after his death, the reason there were two churches and polemics,and on and on, just stating the obvious. All Gospels tell what was written on the cross, which is the indictment, same as all other crucified. Above the cross was " King of the Jews". That made him an enemy of Rome. Only Caesar was king, and Pilate the governor of Judea. A Jewish king signalled a revolt against Rome. If you had read your Gospels, you would know that at Passover, with Jerusalem bursting with fanatics and zealots- there were knife wielding people in Jesus' entourage- , the fear of revolt was terrifying for the priests, who were responsible for the lives of the people. If you knew some history, you would know that a revolt is what happened in the years 66-70 and 135 AD . The temple was destroyed , hundreds of thousands dead, you could wade in blood in Jerusalem, and the Jews were exiled for 2,000 years, becoming slaves.
The priests fears were 100% justified. Their knew the Romans well, and had already suffered hell from the Babylonians.
Jesus was perfectly capable of causing or inciting a rebellion. Didn't he cause a serious disturbance at the Temple, paralysing its normal, obligatory activity? Jesus didn't defend himself against Pilate's accusation , of Jesus being a king. A " kingdom not of this world" was not something pagan Pilate could understand. That was all that was needed for Jesus to be crucified by Rome, under Roman law and Roman horrid method.
The writer should thank Pilate for sending Jesus to his death. Average Joe's own salvation was granted- the Jews didn't think they needed a saviour in the afterlife, they needed one who would liberate them from the Romans in this life- , he got a symbol for his religion, albeit a reminder of how horrible humans treat other humans - something Romans did -, and a resurrection, forcing miracles on God, as if God was not enough. But that's another story.
As for the Vatican and Francis, he also never knew that Palestine , just a name, didn't exist until 135AD , when Adrian named Judea and other parts of the Land of Israel for the Philistines, as an act of spite and deterrence against the rebelling Jews. Jesus was indeed born a Jew, whether in Nazareth of Galilee or Betlehem of Judea, and died a Jew, after visiting and attacking the Jewish temple and celebrating a Passover seder.
Your comments prove that you’re anything but an expert on Jesus, so drop dead telling anyone else to stay in their own lane; go be an arrogant, holier-than-thou Pharisee somewhere else. You’re your own worst enemy😎
How anyone can stand by this tripe as inspirational is beyond me, whatever you heard I'd love to hear it myself for when I read this I see it as the nonsensical divisive evil gibberish as it is
I'd like to remind you of what happened to the lovely black woman who when dealing with police in her home rebuked the gentile policeman in the name of Jesus
One of many perplexing conundrums wrapped in enigma with a cloud of obfuscation regarding inspiration emanating from the synagogue of Satan
Luke 14:26
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, even their own life-such a person cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 10:34-35
34. Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in- law
Jesus is truth. Truth is not always easy. He is describing the results of Him bringing truth to the wicked world. The world rejects him. Haven't we seen family conflict in our homes over the holidays recently? The cult who advocates mutilation and murder of children are sending our kids home from school telling us they have a right to do so. Only a creator can ask us to love Him more than we love our children. Jesus is instructing at the same time to love our children, indeed to love our fellow man.
10:34-36Jesus meant that His immediate purpose would entail conflict even though Messiah would ultimately bring peace (Isa. 11; Luke 2:14). People would divide over whether Jesus was the Messiah.
Micah 7:6 refers to rebellion that happened during King Ahaz’s reign. It pointed to a greater division in Jesus’ day. In both cases the root of the conflict involved righteousness and unrighteousness.
“Feud between members of a family is also mentioned in the Talmud as a sign of the coming of the Messianic age.”[506]
Jesus presented the consequences of His coming as though they were His purpose in coming. He came to bring this kind of conflict only in an indirect sense. By expressing Himself this way Jesus demonstrated His Christological and eschatological awareness. These conditions will prevail before Jesus’ second coming too.
If you remove the beam that is in your eye, then you might see clearly enough to remove the speck you believe is in Dershowitz', and Christians' eyes. Maybe.
To use the word clear in describing jezeusian mythology is laughable 😆
It tells a story full of misrepresentations, lies, obfuscations, misappropriations and to have created more anti-Semitism than any other document including shitlers.
Incorrect. Jesus was very much a Jew and he often taught in synagogues. He brought his message of salvation and redemption to the Jews of Israel but the leaders were more interested in preserving their religious and political influence than listening. This is why they wanted Jesus killed.
Paul was a Pharisee who early n was an aggressive persecutor of followers of Jesus. Most of his letters were to Jewish audiences. Jews were of immense interest to Jesus and they are central to the story of Our Redeemer.
As believers in Jesus as the Son of God were instructed, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
The good news is the we have a Great God who is the creator of everything in the universe and the God of all people. He isn’t a local God who can only offer his grace to a small segment of humankind in a small area of the world.
The New Covenant is there for each and every one of us. No restrictions.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
I will simply say, you AverageJoeMN, are wrong in your view. How many times was Jesus referred to by the Jews as Rabbi? How many temples did he visit to share Gods word? It was the Jews who called for his crucifixion and followed through with it. He never once claimed to be anything other than Jewish. How many times did he quote from the Old Testament? How many prophesies did He fulfill?
Someone needs to ask the Pope how he would react to such a terrorist attack against the Vatican City. Lofty rhetoric about peace sounds good on paper. Not so much when lives are at stake.
My 2023 "#1 New Book on Amazon" (Invisible Treason) had a foreword from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. Not long after it came out, the respected Archbishop was excommunicated.
You are generally accurate with a few errors. And not being Catholic but rather Romonic Gypsy I will curse Pope Francis may He Rot and Burn in Hell, made his House be the house of Rats and his clan the clan of roaches. Now more to the point, most scholars believe Jesus was born in the spring and Caesar would’ve been hesitant to demand accounting Jews around the time of Hanukkah when it would be difficult for Jews to travel Caesar was smart. So I can agree with the scholars that say it was March or April. And Pope Pius XII did everything he could and literally saved hundreds of thousands of Jew without being overt enough to give Hitler an opportunity to close the Catholic Church. This was a matter of caution brinksmanship I one time also believed that Pope Pius had betrayed the Jews but after some study have come to the conclusion it was committing espionage against Hitler rather than open warfare. Oh yes and there were no Palestinians and no keffiyehs or Muslims when Jesus was born.
Yes PPXII ‘s silence has been debunked. He was silently participating in espionage against Hitler particularly in Italy. You forget the pope was also dealing with Mussolini at the same time.
Thank you Mr. Dershowitz. The Biblical quote is more than apt. This pope is a communist and an ideologue hiding behind my savior, Jesus Christ. Christ was not a Palestinian. There is no such place as Palestine. Those Palestinians are Arabs. Christ was born a Jew, lived as a Jew, and died a Jew. Israel was, is and always shall be God's chosen. Judea and Samaria is Israel's by birthright and God's covenant.
"...the Vatican has tried hard to make up for its centuries of attacks on the Jewish people, including the Crusades"...??? The crusades were to recover the Holy land from the Muslim Caliphates, it was attacks against muslims, not jews. Read some history. I agree with everything else, after all as you point out, Jesus was a jew and Islam did not appear until 610 CE. I support Israel 100%, god bless Netanyahu.
You never read what the Crusaders did to Jews on their way to Jerusalem? The Rheinland? Other parts of Europe? The blood libels ? All the horrors committed by Christians? Saintly Pope John Paul II went to the Temple Wall in Jerusalem and apologised for the crimes Christians committed against Jews. Is this the first time you hear about this?
Below you Giselle wrote what I would have written but more eloquently, it's odd that I often find eloquent rebuttals to clueless statements with no re-engagement from the original clueless one, almost as if the truth bounced off and it's mystifying, agree with you on Netanyahu
The Vatican is The Whore of Babylon will do anything to increase Its power over the world…so there’s nothing Poop Francis can do to reconcile himself to his own stupidity, ignorance and arrogance, but drop dead💀
According our Argentine friends, the pope is and has always been a socialist. He was raised in the Peronist party which is entirely socialist and has destroyed Argentina’s economy. In Argentina socialists are also called “zurdos”, which means left handed. The pope was known as “El Zurdo” throughout his religious career. He has always inserted himself into politics; always on the side of the left.
Many many German Catholics stood up to Hitler and were put into the camps and executed. Some of our greatest saints were recognized for their truth to this evil. Pope Benedict’s parents are an example of this.
As a practicing Roman Catholic who has always been a proud and staunch supporter of Israel, I am appalled by the actions of Pope Francis in this matter (as well as many other major issues). I was proud to have personally met and talked with Saint Pope John Paul II in September 1995 at St. Peter's. This pope is quite the opposite of what John Paul II espoused and taught.
Popes are human beings. They commit sins. They make mistakes. They're not perfect. However, Francis takes the cake when it comes to all that and more. He is a disgrace to the Roman Catholic Church.
When all is said and done, Pope Francis should be remembered as the Barack Obama of Catholicism.
Well stated and I vehemently agree. I am a devout Catholic and all I can say is “He is not my Pope”.
If you’re a Catholic he’s your Pope. You may want to change denominations and become a Lutheran.
Pope John Paul was a different sort of person.
Amen to that!!!
Absolutely false!!
You don’t even deserve a response, anyone reading your posts can understand the evil you espouse.
That’s BS to most Americans
We should amend that. Normal people are appalled by land theft, apartheid, ethnic preferences and genocide.
Hopefully you’re neither a holocaust nor a genocide denier. I’m glad the Pope isn’t either one of those.
Francis was supposed to be a different kind of pope, just like Obama was supposed to be a different kind of POTUS. Both turned out to be morally-confused closeted Marxists and huge disappointments.
Obama stated he wanted to “transform” the United States. Apparently, this Pope wants to transform the Church. I’m a non-practicing Catholic who from time to time thinks of returning to church, but not under this Pope’s misguided leadership.
Judith, hang in there. It's got to get better. I am a "cradle Catholic," and I deplore what has happened to the church since Vatican II. I do not attend the "new mass" because it angers me. The faith I was taught to observe has been taken away from me in the name of "updating" the church. Francis has banned the Traditional Latin Mass, but it still exists -- if you can find a priest who knows how to offer it.
This Pope is long past his sell-by date…
The Catholic Church has some good attributes, but they have also done some serious harm by covering their crimes and participating in the crimes of others.
Jesus was Jewish by birth but the New Testament is clear he didn't practice Judaism. He came to fulfill the law, not to live by it. He wasn't a Jewish Rabbi. He wasn't crucified because he was a "Jewish enemy of the Roman empire", the leaders of the area Jews DID participate in his Roman execution. He was viewed by the Jewish leaders as their enemy, an enemy of their system. Jesus didn't "live as a Jew and die as a Jew".
I appreciated the rest of your column but you might want to stay in your own lane when you clearly aren't well-educated on real Jesus history.
The New Testament is clear that he did in fact practice Judaism. He was called Rabbi, meaning teacher. He said that not one tiny mark of the Torah, called a yud, will pass away until all is fulfilled. The Last Supper was a Passover Seder. The New Testament also said he came to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Dedication, aka Hanukkah. He could never have claimed to be the Messiah if he didn’t practice Judaism. By the way I’m a Messianic Jew. I’m Jewish and I believe that Jesus is the Messiah.
Thank you for saving me the time. Shalom
Ditto
My Methodist church left me. I sometimes wonder if I should find a Messianic Jewish Synagogue. I think as Christians, we should observe that which Christ observed, plus his birth and resurrection.
https://hope4israel.org/
This is a dear friend of mine, Moran. He is an Israeli Jewish believer in Jesus and lives in Jerusalem. He would tell you that there are not a lot of messianic synagogues he would recommend but I love getting his weekly Torah commentaries.
You need to study a bit…Jesus did live by his fathers law. He was also clear his coming did not erase his fathers law.
…but fulfilled it. The Passover meal the night before his entry into Jerusalem was a different Passover and the fulfilling of the Old Testament. He was the Seder. It is his Bread of Life narrative. He is the Eucharist (Greek) the unleavened bread of life.
Reply to Average Joe
You need to read the Christian Bible, what you call the New Testament. It explains everything you don't know, which is everything you say. The only reason Christians don't practice Judaism is because Paul told them not to. But Jesus did. This is obvious even to the Gospel writers. Jesus read Torah, knew what it said, preached as Rabbis did - though with ideas one can find today in Reform Judaism - ,made the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem three times a year, regularly went to synagogue,his followers kept practicing Judaism after his death, the reason there were two churches and polemics,and on and on, just stating the obvious. All Gospels tell what was written on the cross, which is the indictment, same as all other crucified. Above the cross was " King of the Jews". That made him an enemy of Rome. Only Caesar was king, and Pilate the governor of Judea. A Jewish king signalled a revolt against Rome. If you had read your Gospels, you would know that at Passover, with Jerusalem bursting with fanatics and zealots- there were knife wielding people in Jesus' entourage- , the fear of revolt was terrifying for the priests, who were responsible for the lives of the people. If you knew some history, you would know that a revolt is what happened in the years 66-70 and 135 AD . The temple was destroyed , hundreds of thousands dead, you could wade in blood in Jerusalem, and the Jews were exiled for 2,000 years, becoming slaves.
The priests fears were 100% justified. Their knew the Romans well, and had already suffered hell from the Babylonians.
Jesus was perfectly capable of causing or inciting a rebellion. Didn't he cause a serious disturbance at the Temple, paralysing its normal, obligatory activity? Jesus didn't defend himself against Pilate's accusation , of Jesus being a king. A " kingdom not of this world" was not something pagan Pilate could understand. That was all that was needed for Jesus to be crucified by Rome, under Roman law and Roman horrid method.
The writer should thank Pilate for sending Jesus to his death. Average Joe's own salvation was granted- the Jews didn't think they needed a saviour in the afterlife, they needed one who would liberate them from the Romans in this life- , he got a symbol for his religion, albeit a reminder of how horrible humans treat other humans - something Romans did -, and a resurrection, forcing miracles on God, as if God was not enough. But that's another story.
As for the Vatican and Francis, he also never knew that Palestine , just a name, didn't exist until 135AD , when Adrian named Judea and other parts of the Land of Israel for the Philistines, as an act of spite and deterrence against the rebelling Jews. Jesus was indeed born a Jew, whether in Nazareth of Galilee or Betlehem of Judea, and died a Jew, after visiting and attacking the Jewish temple and celebrating a Passover seder.
Your comments prove that you’re anything but an expert on Jesus, so drop dead telling anyone else to stay in their own lane; go be an arrogant, holier-than-thou Pharisee somewhere else. You’re your own worst enemy😎
How anyone can stand by this tripe as inspirational is beyond me, whatever you heard I'd love to hear it myself for when I read this I see it as the nonsensical divisive evil gibberish as it is
I'd like to remind you of what happened to the lovely black woman who when dealing with police in her home rebuked the gentile policeman in the name of Jesus
One of many perplexing conundrums wrapped in enigma with a cloud of obfuscation regarding inspiration emanating from the synagogue of Satan
Luke 14:26
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, even their own life-such a person cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 10:34-35
34. Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in- law
Jesus is truth. Truth is not always easy. He is describing the results of Him bringing truth to the wicked world. The world rejects him. Haven't we seen family conflict in our homes over the holidays recently? The cult who advocates mutilation and murder of children are sending our kids home from school telling us they have a right to do so. Only a creator can ask us to love Him more than we love our children. Jesus is instructing at the same time to love our children, indeed to love our fellow man.
10:34-36Jesus meant that His immediate purpose would entail conflict even though Messiah would ultimately bring peace (Isa. 11; Luke 2:14). People would divide over whether Jesus was the Messiah.
Micah 7:6 refers to rebellion that happened during King Ahaz’s reign. It pointed to a greater division in Jesus’ day. In both cases the root of the conflict involved righteousness and unrighteousness.
“Feud between members of a family is also mentioned in the Talmud as a sign of the coming of the Messianic age.”[506]
Jesus presented the consequences of His coming as though they were His purpose in coming. He came to bring this kind of conflict only in an indirect sense. By expressing Himself this way Jesus demonstrated His Christological and eschatological awareness. These conditions will prevail before Jesus’ second coming too.
If you remove the beam that is in your eye, then you might see clearly enough to remove the speck you believe is in Dershowitz', and Christians' eyes. Maybe.
Howdy from Minnetonka
To use the word clear in describing jezeusian mythology is laughable 😆
It tells a story full of misrepresentations, lies, obfuscations, misappropriations and to have created more anti-Semitism than any other document including shitlers.
JC lived and died as a Jew.
Rabbi Tovia Singer has insight for you & humanity
https://youtu.be/K_140p_fpSo?si=MJus7Q5Gi5VWZ7XV
Incorrect. Jesus was very much a Jew and he often taught in synagogues. He brought his message of salvation and redemption to the Jews of Israel but the leaders were more interested in preserving their religious and political influence than listening. This is why they wanted Jesus killed.
Paul was a Pharisee who early n was an aggressive persecutor of followers of Jesus. Most of his letters were to Jewish audiences. Jews were of immense interest to Jesus and they are central to the story of Our Redeemer.
As believers in Jesus as the Son of God were instructed, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
The good news is the we have a Great God who is the creator of everything in the universe and the God of all people. He isn’t a local God who can only offer his grace to a small segment of humankind in a small area of the world.
The New Covenant is there for each and every one of us. No restrictions.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
You are confused. He was a Jew, and taught in the Temple.
I will simply say, you AverageJoeMN, are wrong in your view. How many times was Jesus referred to by the Jews as Rabbi? How many temples did he visit to share Gods word? It was the Jews who called for his crucifixion and followed through with it. He never once claimed to be anything other than Jewish. How many times did he quote from the Old Testament? How many prophesies did He fulfill?
You are as stupid and evil as the fake Pope.
Fine, important article.
Someone needs to ask the Pope how he would react to such a terrorist attack against the Vatican City. Lofty rhetoric about peace sounds good on paper. Not so much when lives are at stake.
Thank you for writing this. Poor Francis is a morally confused man. Thank you for making that case and especially for your closing quote
Corrupt, not confused.
He seems a good bit more morally resolute than his predecessors were when it comes to the abuse of children by priests.
Francis is why you don’t elect Jesuit Popes. They are of the world.
“The Catholic Church is a great institution that does so much good around the world.” Um maybe not so much.
Amen, Sad to watch.
My 2023 "#1 New Book on Amazon" (Invisible Treason) had a foreword from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. Not long after it came out, the respected Archbishop was excommunicated.
https://www.trudelgroup.com
You are generally accurate with a few errors. And not being Catholic but rather Romonic Gypsy I will curse Pope Francis may He Rot and Burn in Hell, made his House be the house of Rats and his clan the clan of roaches. Now more to the point, most scholars believe Jesus was born in the spring and Caesar would’ve been hesitant to demand accounting Jews around the time of Hanukkah when it would be difficult for Jews to travel Caesar was smart. So I can agree with the scholars that say it was March or April. And Pope Pius XII did everything he could and literally saved hundreds of thousands of Jew without being overt enough to give Hitler an opportunity to close the Catholic Church. This was a matter of caution brinksmanship I one time also believed that Pope Pius had betrayed the Jews but after some study have come to the conclusion it was committing espionage against Hitler rather than open warfare. Oh yes and there were no Palestinians and no keffiyehs or Muslims when Jesus was born.
Yes PPXII ‘s silence has been debunked. He was silently participating in espionage against Hitler particularly in Italy. You forget the pope was also dealing with Mussolini at the same time.
Thank you Mr. Dershowitz. The Biblical quote is more than apt. This pope is a communist and an ideologue hiding behind my savior, Jesus Christ. Christ was not a Palestinian. There is no such place as Palestine. Those Palestinians are Arabs. Christ was born a Jew, lived as a Jew, and died a Jew. Israel was, is and always shall be God's chosen. Judea and Samaria is Israel's by birthright and God's covenant.
you are correct: the current pope is leading Catholics astray into evil, doctrines of the devil and has been flattered by pride to teach satan’s words
"...the Vatican has tried hard to make up for its centuries of attacks on the Jewish people, including the Crusades"...??? The crusades were to recover the Holy land from the Muslim Caliphates, it was attacks against muslims, not jews. Read some history. I agree with everything else, after all as you point out, Jesus was a jew and Islam did not appear until 610 CE. I support Israel 100%, god bless Netanyahu.
Replying to Michel Brisebois
You never read what the Crusaders did to Jews on their way to Jerusalem? The Rheinland? Other parts of Europe? The blood libels ? All the horrors committed by Christians? Saintly Pope John Paul II went to the Temple Wall in Jerusalem and apologised for the crimes Christians committed against Jews. Is this the first time you hear about this?
Below you Giselle wrote what I would have written but more eloquently, it's odd that I often find eloquent rebuttals to clueless statements with no re-engagement from the original clueless one, almost as if the truth bounced off and it's mystifying, agree with you on Netanyahu
The Vatican is The Whore of Babylon will do anything to increase Its power over the world…so there’s nothing Poop Francis can do to reconcile himself to his own stupidity, ignorance and arrogance, but drop dead💀
According our Argentine friends, the pope is and has always been a socialist. He was raised in the Peronist party which is entirely socialist and has destroyed Argentina’s economy. In Argentina socialists are also called “zurdos”, which means left handed. The pope was known as “El Zurdo” throughout his religious career. He has always inserted himself into politics; always on the side of the left.
Many many German Catholics stood up to Hitler and were put into the camps and executed. Some of our greatest saints were recognized for their truth to this evil. Pope Benedict’s parents are an example of this.