Ted Belman. This is long overdue. Protestants, are you listening.
The Vatican has told Catholics that they should not seek to convert Jews and stressed that the two faiths have a “unique” relationship.
It is seen as a new Vatican attempt to distance itself from centuries of Christian-Jewish tension and prejudice.
The document released on Thursday is not a doctrinal text, but a “stimulus for the future”, the Vatican says. It builds on the “Nostra aetate” (In Our Time) document which, 50 years ago, redefined Vatican ties with Judaism.
Nostra aetate rejected the concept of collective Jewish guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
‘Our elder brothers’
The new document is called “The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable” and was written by the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with Jews.
The Vatican is not stupid. If there is any religion that knows the true history of the Jewish people – it is Catholicism. The Vatican knows that it tried to highjack Judaism and more than 2 thousand years later must realize it’s a fruitless cause.
The Protestant and Islamic religions – not so wise.