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Christodoulos
08-26-2014, 05:19 PM
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Underscoring the close ties between Christianity and Judaism and calling Holocaust denial “madness,” Pope Francis told an interviewer that “inside every Christian is a Jew.”

In a wide-ranging interview published Friday (June 13) in Spain’s La Vanguardia newspaper, the pope said dialogue between the two faiths can sometimes be a “hot potato.”

“I believe that interreligious dialogue must investigate the Jewish roots of Christianity and the Christian flowering of Judaism,” Francis said. “I understand it is a challenge, a hot potato, but it is possible to live as brothers.”

Francis’ statement seems to go further than his predecessor, St. John Paul II, who made headlines in 1986 as the first pope to visit Rome’s main synagogue and declared Jews to be the “elder brothers” of the Christian faith.

“Every day, I pray with the Psalms of David. My prayer is Jewish, then I have the Eucharist, which is Christian,” the Argentine pontiff added.

The pope also took the opportunity to criticize Holocaust denial as “madness” while defending the record of Pope Pius XII, who led the Roman Catholic Church during World War II.

Francis will soon have to decide whether to advance the sainthood cause for the controversial wartime pope, who is accused of failing to speak out publicly against the m*** murder of Jews. For years, Jewish leaders and Nazi hunters have demanded the Vatican open up its secret wartime files.

Francis said he was concerned about “everything which has been thrown at poor Pius XII,” while stressing that he sheltered Jews in the convents of Rome and other Italian cities, as well as the popes’ summer residence in Castel Gadolfo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5492835.html

Columcille
09-05-2014, 11:42 AM
Huffington Post, now the there is an unbiased media agency. NOT! I am reminded of Steve Taylor's song "Meet the Press." Line, "they can state the facts while telling a lie." We know context is everything, yet one line can be twisted out of context for an agenda. Anyways, not much for commenting on copy and pasted text from a news source.

MacG
09-05-2014, 10:35 PM
"I want to be a Clone" :)

MacG
09-08-2014, 11:38 PM
“inside every Christian is a Jew.”

Is this not true, I mean from a particular POV? Especially a Catholic Eucharistic POV?

Columcille
09-09-2014, 02:34 PM
Romans 2.29 would say so. I don't think the context of the Eucharist applies like eating Jesus as a Jew. He is our manna from heaven, but the incarnation is not so much about being a Jew as saving all humanity.