Telling the Lost Sheep to Stay Lost
by Thomas A. Droleskey
Ever desirous of avoiding to appear "triumphalistic" in the wake of the spirit of false ecumenism that characterizes the counterfeit church of conciliarism, the conciliar Vatican's Secretariat of State has issued the following "explanation" about the "revised" Good Friday prayer for the Jews that has caused so much controversy since leaders of various Talmudic organizations began to militate for a revision in the already modified Good Friday prayer for the Jews that existed in the modernized version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition promulgated by Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII in 1961:
VATICAN CITY, 4 APR 2008 (VIS) - Here follows the communique provided by the Press Office of the Holy See on the publication of the new "Oremus et pro Iudaeis" for the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal.
"Following the publication of the new Prayer for the Jews for the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal, some groups within the Jewish community have expressed disappointment that it is not in harmony with the official declarations and statements of the Holy See regarding the Jewish people and their faith which have marked the progress of friendly relations between the Jews and the Catholic Church over the last forty years".
"The Holy See wishes to reassure that the new formulation of the Prayer, which modifies certain expressions of the 1962 Missal, in no way intends to indicate a change in the Catholic Church's regard for the Jews which has evolved from the basis of the Second Vatican Council, particularly the Declaration Nostra Aetate. In fact, Pope Benedict XVI, in an audience with the Chief Rabbis of Israel on 15 September 2005, remarked that this document has proven to be a milestone on the road towards the reconciliation of Christians with the Jewish people. The continuation of the position found in Nostra Aetate is clearly shown by the fact that the prayer contained in the 1970 Missal continues to be in full use, and is the ordinary form of the prayer of Catholics".
"In the context of other affirmations of the Council - on Sacred Scripture (Dei Verbum, 14) and on the Church (Lumen Gentium, 16) - Nostra Aetate presents the fundamental principles which have sustained and today continue to sustain the bonds of esteem, dialogue, love, solidarity and collaboration between Catholics and Jews. It is precisely while examining the mystery of the Church that Nostra Aetate recalls the unique bond with which the people of the New Testament is spiritually linked with the stock of Abraham and rejects every attitude of contempt or discrimination against Jews, firmly repudiating any kind of anti-Semitism".
"The Holy See hopes that the explanations made in this statement will help to clarify any misunderstanding. It reiterates the unwavering desire that the concrete progress made in mutual understanding and the growth in esteem between Jews and Christians will continue to develop".
CLARIFICATIONS ON THE NEW "OREMUS ET PRO IUDAEIS"
While it is unknown at this point whether the conciliar Vatican will have a copy of this statement delivered personally to the Chief Rabbi of Israel, either with or without a letter from Tarcisio "Cardinal" Bertone, the conciliar Vatican's Secretary of State, as initial press reports indicated would be the case (and is not excluded by the statement above), the mere fact that an additional "clarification" has been issued to appease the ancient enemies of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who demanded the revision in the Good Friday prayer for use by the Motu communities is testimony in and of itself of the apostasy of the present moment. A Catholic News Service report elaborated on the fact that Rabbi David Rosen, the pro-abortion "papal knight" (whose "knighthood" was conferred by--drum roll, please--Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI in November of 2005) who had received a letter from Walter "Cardinal" Kasper dated on February 13, 2008, to assure him that the Catholic Church had no mission to convert the Jews, expects the new statement to be transmitted officially to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel:
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI's revised prayer for the Jews for use in the Tridentine-rite Good Friday liturgy does not indicate any form of stepping back from the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, the Vatican said.
"The Holy See wishes to reassure that the new formulation of the prayer, which modifies certain expressions of the 1962 Missal, in no way intends to indicate a change in the Catholic Church's regard for the Jews, which has evolved from the basis of the Second Vatican Council," said an April 4 statement from the Vatican press office.
In early February, the Vatican published Pope Benedict's revision of the Good Friday prayer, which is used only in the liturgy celebrated according to the 1962 Roman Missal, or Tridentine rite. The rite is no longer widely used by Catholics but may be used by some church communities under recently revised norms.
The new prayer removed language referring to the "blindness" of the Jews, but it prays that Jews will recognize Jesus, the savior, and that "all Israel may be saved."
The April 4 statement said some members of the Jewish community felt the new prayer was "not in harmony with the official declarations and statements of the Holy See regarding the Jewish people and their faith which have marked the progress of friendly relations between the Jews and the Catholic Church over the last 40 years."
In particular, some Jews, as well as some Catholics, felt the prayer contained an explicit call to attempt to convert Jews to Christianity.
In an article published in Germany in late March and scheduled for publication in the Vatican newspaper before April 15, Cardinal Walter Kasper said that on the basis of a long history of compulsory catechesis and forced conversion, "many Jews consider a mission to the Jews as a threat to their existence."
"The Catholic Church has no organized or institutionalized mission to the Jews," said the cardinal, who is president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.
That statement of fact, he said, is backed up with a theological position in the revised 1962 prayer's second line: "Almighty and everlasting God, you who want all men to be saved and to reach the awareness of the truth, graciously grant that, as the full number of the Gentiles comes into your church, all Israel may be saved."
The second line echoes the teaching of St. Paul in his Letter to the Romans that God's promise of salvation to his chosen people has not been revoked and that once all the nations are gathered under Christ, the Jewish people will be saved, Cardinal Kasper said.
"So one can say: God will bring about the salvation of Israel in the end, not on the basis of a mission to the Jews, but on the basis of the mission to the Gentiles, when the fullness of the Gentiles has entered" into Christ, the cardinal wrote.
At the same time, Cardinal Kasper said, Christians do believe in the promise of salvation in Jesus Christ and no one should be surprised that Christians pray for the salvation of all people and that "tactfully and respectfully" they give witness to their faith in Jesus.
The Vatican's April 4 statement did not mention missionary activity or attempts to convert Jews.
Rather, it affirmed the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, particularly its recognition of "the unique bond with which the people of the New Testament is spiritually linked with the stock of Abraham," its condemnation of anti-Semitism as well as its promotion of "esteem, dialogue, love, solidarity and collaboration between Christians and Jews."
Rabbi David Rosen, director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, told Catholic News Service April 4 that the Vatican statement was "an important clarification."
"I think it contains a very important implicit statement -- which I would have been happier to see made explicit -- that if one accepts (the Vatican II document) 'Nostra Aetate,' then they must demonstrate esteem for Judaism, which precludes proselytism," Rabbi Rosen said.
The rabbi said the April 4 statement does not contain all of the elements he had been told in early March would be included in a clarification from Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state.
Rabbi Rosen said he still expects Cardinal Bertone's statement to be sent to members of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, which had been promised the clarification.
A Vatican official said that by releasing the April 4 statement as a communique from the Vatican Secretariat of State, it made clear the fact that it reflects the official position of the Vatican and not simply the position of an individual cardinal.
CNS STORY: Vatican: Revised prayer does not reverse Vatican II teaching on Jews
What appears to most people to be, albeit falsely, the Catholic Church must issue "clarifications" to her ancient enemies in order to assure them that she rejects anti-Semitism? No such assurance ever need be given as the Catholic Church seeks the spiritual good of all men, which is their salvation, which she alone can offer to them. The Catholic Church never gives even the slightest impression that men in false religions are more or less assured of their salvation, that there is no necessity of seeking with urgency their unconditional conversion to her maternal bosom, outside of which there is no salvation. The whole needless "controversy" of the Good Friday prayer is the result of a decidedly anti-Catholic viewpoint on that part of the conciliarists, a viewpoint that is also anti-Semitic as it leaves those who adhere to the Talmud steeped in a false religion and secure in the knowledge that great efforts will be made to assuage them about their "concerns" from time to time.
Much of this new statement is drawn directly from the text of Nostra Aetate, October 28, 1965, which itself is a repudiation of Catholic teaching on the simple fact that there is a necessity to seek with urgency the unconditional conversion of all non-Catholics, including adherents of the Talmud, to the true Faith. The Council of Florence's Cantate Domino, issued by Pope Eugene IV in 1442, is treated as though it does not exist:
It firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart "into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels" [Matt. 25:41], unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.
Was the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, present at the Council of Florence? Did He direct this council's proceedings, inspiring the decrees issued by a legitimate Successor of Saint Peter? What kind of "reconciliation" is necessary between Jews and Christians? What do the concilairists never make reference to Cantate Domino? Was Saint John Chrysostom guilty of "contempt" for the Jews when he wrote the following?
Many, I know, respect the Jews and think that their present way of life is a venerable one. This is why I hasten to uproot and tear out this deadly opinion. I said that the synagogue is no better than a theater and I bring forward a prophet as my witness. Surely the Jews are not more deserving of belief than their prophets. "You had a harlot's brow; you became shameless before all". Where a harlot has set herself up, that place is a brothel. But the synagogue is not only a brothel and a theater; it also is a den of robbers and a lodging for wild beasts. Jeremiah said: "Your house has become for me the den of a hyena". He does not simply say "of wild beast", but "of a filthy wild beast", and again: "I have abandoned my house, I have cast off my inheritance". But when God forsakes a people, what hope of salvation is left? When God forsakes a place, that place becomes the dwelling of demons.
(2) But at any rate the Jews say that they, too, adore God. God forbid that I say that. No Jew adores God! Who say so? The Son of God say so. For he said: "If you were to know my Father, you would also know me. But you neither know me nor do you know my Father". Could I produce a witness more trustworthy than the Son of God?
(3) If, then, the Jews fail to know the Father, if they crucified the Son, if they thrust off the help of the Spirit, who should not make bold to declare plainly that the synagogue is a dwelling of demons? God is not worshipped there. Heaven forbid! From now on it remains a place of idolatry. But still some people pay it honor as a holy place.
(4) Let me tell you this, not from guesswork but from my own experience. Three days ago-believe me, I am not lying-I saw a free woman of good bearing, modest, and a believer. A brutal, unfeeling man, reputed to be a Christian (for I would not call a person who would dare to do such a thing a sincere Christian) was forcing her to enter the shrine of the Hebrews and to swear there an oath about some matters under dispute with him. She came up to me and asked for help; she begged me to prevent this lawless violence-for it was forbidden to her, who had shared in the divine mysteries, to enter that place. I was fired with indignation, I became angry, I rose up, I refused to let her be dragged into that transgression, I snatched her from the hands of her abductor. I asked him if were a Christian, and he said he was. Then I set upon him vigorously, charging him with lack of feeling and the worst stupidity; I told him he was no better off than a mule if he, who professed to worship Christ, would drag someone off to the dens of the Jews who had crucified him. I talked to him a long time, drawing my lesson from the Holy Gospels; I told him first that it was altogether forbidden to swear and that it was wrong to impose the necessity of swearing on anyone. I then told him that he most not subject a baptize believer to this necessity. In fact, he must not force even an unbaptized person to swear an oath.
(5) After I talked with him at great length and had driven the folly of his error from his soul, I asked him why he rejected the Church and dragged the woman to the place where the Hebrews assembled. He answered that many people had told him that oaths sworn there were more to be feared. His words made me groan, then I grew angry, and finally I began to smile. When I saw the devil's wickedness, I groaned because he had the power to seduce men; I grew angry when I considered how careless were those who were deceived; when I saw the extent and depth of the folly of those who were deceived, I smiled.
(6) I told you this story because you are savage and ruthless in your attitude toward those who do such things and undergo these experiences. If you see one of your brothers falling into such transgressions, you consider that it is someone else's misfortune, not your own; you think you have defended yourselves against your accusers when you say: "What concern of mine is it? What do I have in common with that man"? When you say that, your words manifest the utmost hatred for mankind and a cruelty which benefits the devil. What are you saying? You are a man and share the same nature. Why speak of a common nature when you have but a single head, Christ? Do you dare to say you have nothing in common with your own members? In what sense do you admit that Christ is the head of the Church? For certainly it is the function of the head to join all the limbs together, to order them carefully to each other, and to bind them into one nature. But if you have nothing in common with your members, then you have nothing in common with your brother, nor do you have Christ as your head.
(7) The Jews frighten you as if you were little children, and you do not see it. Many wicked slaves show frightening and ridiculous masks to youngsters-the masks are not frightening by their nature, but they seem so to the children's simple minds-and in this way they stir up many a laugh. This is the way the Jews frighten the simpler-minded Christians with the bugbears and hobgoblins of their shrines. Yet how could their ridiculous and disgraceful synagogues frighten you? Are they not the shrines of men who have been rejected, dishonored, and condemned? Saint John Chrysostom: Eight Homilies Against the Jews
A slight contrast with conciliarism, is it not? Was Saint John Chrysostom speaking the truth? Has this truth changed? Is the synagogue a theater where false worship is offered? Was Bishop George Hay incorrect when he stated the teaching of the Catholic Church about the penalties visited upon any cleric who dared to enter into a synagogue or engage in any form of "prayer" with members of false religions?
A. The spirit of Christ, which dictated the Holy Scriptures, and the spirit which animates and guides the Church of Christ, and teaches her all truth, is the same; and therefore in all ages her conduct on this point has been uniformly the same as what the Holy Scripture teaches. She has constantly forbidden her children to hold any communication, in religious matters, with those who are separated from her communion; and this she has sometimes done under the most severe penalties. In the apostolical canons, which are of very ancient standing, and for the most part handed down from the apostolical age, it is thus decreed: "If any bishop, or priest, or deacon, shall join in prayers with heretics, let him be suspended from Communion". (Can. 44)
Also, "If any clergyman or laic shall go into the synagogue of the Jews, or the meetings of heretics, to join in prayer with them, let him be deposed, and deprived of communion". (Can. 63)
So also, in one of her most respected councils, held in the year 398, at which the great St. Augustine was present, she speaks thus: "None must either pray or sing psalms with heretics; and whosoever shall communicate with those who are cut off from the Communion of the Church, whether clergyman or laic, let him be excommunicated". (Coun. Carth. iv. 72 and 73)
The same is her language in all ages; and in this she shows herself to be the true mother, who will not suffer her children to be divided. She knows her heavenly spouse has declared that "no man can serve two masters; we cannot serve God and Mammon;" and therefore she must either have them to be hers entirely, or she cannot acknowledge them as such. She knows His holy apostle has protested that there can be no "participation, no fellowship, no concord, no pact, no agreement between the faithful and the unbeliever;" and therefore she never can allow any of her faithful children to have any religious communication with those of a false religion and corrupted Faith. (The Laws of God Forbidding All Communication in Religion With Those of a False Religion.)
Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II entered into the synagogue in Rome, Italy, in 1986. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI did so in 2005 in Cologne, Germany. He is about to do so in the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, New York, on April 18, 2008, the same day that he will pay his obeisance to the Masonic Nations organization, the same day on which he will engage in inter-religious prayer" with Protestants and the Orthodox at Saint Joseph's Church in the Borough of Manhattan. And all of that will occur just two days after Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI receives various books and symbols considered to be "sacred" by adherents of false religions but are in fact an absolute and total abomination in the sight of the Most Blessed Trinity.
Although there is no direct mention of "proselytism" in the statement issued by the conciliar Vatican's Secretariat of State, the statement clearly rejects efforts to convert those steeped in the errors of Talmudic Judaism, a false religion that is not worthy of "esteem." How can Catholics "esteem" that which is hated by God, that which is loathsome and abhorrent in His very sight? The fact that the Secretariat of State's statement goes to great length to point out that the Novus Ordo service's Good Friday prayer for the Jews remains in "full use" should say something about the fact that the counterfeit church of conciliarism is incapable of admitting in plain terms that Jews have rejected Our Lord and that they, having heard of the Gospel and the claims made in its behalf by Holy Mother Church, are in grave jeopardy of losing their immortal souls for all eternity. In other words, the lost sheep can stay lost, can stay steeped in their blindness.
Joseph Ratzinger has gone so far as to say that a "Jewish reading" of the Old Testament is a "possible" one, thereby blaspheming God Himself. Contrast Ratzinger's apostasy with the Catholic clarity of Saint John Chrysostom:
“It is of course possible to read the Old Testament so that it is not directed toward Christ; it does not point quite unequivocally to Christ. And if Jews cannot see the promises as being fulfilled in him, this is not just ill will on their part, but genuinely because of the obscurity of the texts and the tension in the relationship between these texts and the figure of Jesus. Jesus brings a new meaning to these texts – yet it is he who first gives them their proper coherence and relevance and significance. There are perfectly good reasons, then, for denying that the Old Testament refers to Christ and for saying, No, that is not what he said. And there are also good reasons for referring it to him – that is what the dispute between Jews and Christians is about.” (Joseph Ratzinger, God and the World, p. 209.)
Let that be your judgment about the synagogue, too. For they brought the books of Moses and the prophets along with them into the synagogue, not to honor them but to outrage them with dishonor. When they say that Moses and the prophets knew not Christ and said nothing about his coming, what greater outrage could they do to those holy men than to accuse them of failing to recognize their Master, than to say that those saintly prophets are partners of their impiety? And so it is that we must hate both them and their synagogue all the more because of their offensive treatment of those holy men." (Saint John Chrysostom, Fourth Century, A.D.)
His Excellency Bishop Mark A. Pivarunas, the Superior-General of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen, wrote the following about Joseph Ratzinger's blasphemy contained in God and the World:
What blasphemy! According to Ratzinger, divine revelation is obscure and there are perfectly good reasons for denying that the Old Testament refers to Christ! What he is saying in reality is that God has failed inasmuch as the divinely inspired prophecies aren't sufficiently clear enough. This is the reason that Pope St. Pius X, knowing this evil tenet of modernism, explicitly stated in the Oath Against Modernism that miracles and prophecies are the surest signs of the divine origin of the Christian religion, and that they are well adapted to all eras and all men. (Adsum, December 2007.)
And what would the conciliarists make of the venerable Dominican saint we honor today, Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P., who labored long and hard for the direct, overt conversion of Jews and Mohammedans in the Iberian Peninsula and in southern France between the latter part of the Fourteenth and the beginning of the Fifteenth Centuries?
To-day, again, it is Catholic Spain that offers one of her sons to the Church, that she may present him to the Christian world as a model and a patron. Vincent Ferrer, or, as he was called, the angel of the judgment, comes to us proclaiming the near approach of the Judge of the living and the dead. During his lifetime, he traversed almost every country of Europe, preaching this terrible truth ["Convert, or die!"--editor's note]; and the people of those times went from his sermons striking their breasts, crying out to God to have mercy upon them--in a word, converted. In these our days, the thought of that awful day, when Jesus Christ will appear in the clouds of heaven to judge mankind, has not the same effect upon Christians. They believe in the last judgment, because it is an article of faith; but, we repeat, the thought produces little impression. After long years of a sinful life, a special grace touches the heart, and we witness a conversion; there are thousands thus converted, but the majority of them continue to lead an easy, comfortable life, seldom thinking on hell, and still less the judgment wherewith God is to bring time to an end.
It was not thus in the Christian ages; neither is it so now with those whose conversion is solid. Love is stronger in them than fear; and yet the fear of God's judgment is every living within them, and gives stability to the new life they have begun. Those Christians, who have heavy debts towards divine justice, because of their past lives, and who, notwithstanding, make the time of Lent a season for evincing their cowardice and tepidity, surely such Christians as these must very rarely ask themselves what will become of them on that day, when the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in the heavens, and when Jesus, not as Saviour, but as Judge, shall separate the goats from the sheep. One would suppose that they would have received a revelation from God, that, on the day of judgment, all will be well with them. Let us be more prudent; let us stand on our guard against the illusions of a proud, self-satisfied indifference; let us secure to ourselves, by sincere repentance, the well-founded hope, that on the terrible day, which has made the very saints tremble, we shall hear these words of the divine Judge addressed to us: 'Come, ye blessed of My Father, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!' Vincent Ferrer leaves the peaceful cell of his monastery, that he may go and rouse men to the great truth they had forgotten--the day of God's inexorable justice; we have not heard his preachings, but, have we not the Gospel? Have we not the Church, who, at the commencement, of this season of penance, preached to us the terrible truth, which St. Vincent took as the subject of his instructions? Let us, therefore, prepare ourselves to appear before Him, who will demand of us a strict account of those graces which He so profusely poured out upon us, and which were purchased by His Blood. Happy they that spend their Lents well, for they may hope for a favourable judgment! (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.)
From the life of Saint Vincent Ferrer in the Breviary, found in The Liturgical Year:
He exposed the perfidy of the Jews, and refuted the false doctrines of the Saracens, but with so much earnestness and success, that he brought a great number of infidels to the faith of Christ, and converted many thousand Christians from sin to repentance, and from vice to virtue. God had chosen him to teach the way of salvation to all nations, and tribes, and tongues; as also to warn men of the coming of the last and dread day of judgment, He so preached, that he struck terror into the minds of all his hearers, and turned them from earthly affections to the love of God.
In other words, men need to be exhorted, challenged, to convert. The Apostles spoke, they challenged, they exhorted. The Saints spoke, they challenged, they exhorted. There is no conversion without the preaching of the Word orally and without a word of warning. The Spiritual Works of Mercy exhort us to instruct the ignorant and to admonish the sinner. These works are not optional. They are mandatory. We do not know when we--or those we seek to convert--will die. That's why the Apostles risked their lives to proclaim the truths of the Faith. They knew that there might not be a tomorrow for the souls to whom they were sent, starting with Saint Peter's discourse to the Jews on Pentecost Sunday that resulted in 3,000 of them converting on the spot.
Why do the conciliarists ignore the fact that Alphonse Ratisbonne, a Jew, was converted by the Mother of God herself as she appeared to him in the Church of San Andrea delle Fratte in Rome, Italy, on January 20, 1842, and that Father Alphonse Ratisbonne worked assiduously for the conversion of Jews living in Palestine in the Nineteenth Century? Who do the conciliarists ignore these simple words of Pope Saint Pius X, which stand in great contrast to their own apostasies, their own acts of anti-Semitism by refusing to admit publicly that the Catholic Church must seek the unconditional conversion of all men, including Jews, to the true Faith:
POPE: We are unable to favor this movement [of Zionism]. We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem—but we could never sanction it. The ground of Jerusalem, if it were not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church I cannot answer you otherwise. The Jews have not recognized our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people.
HERZL: [The conflict between Rome and Jerusalem, represented by the one and the other of us, was once again under way. At the outset I tried to be conciliatory. I said my little piece. . . . It didn’t greatly impress him. Jerusalem was not to be placed in Jewish hands.] And its present status, Holy Father?
POPE: I know, it is disagreeable to see the Turks in possession of our Holy Places. We simply have to put up with it. But to sanction the Jewish wish to occupy these sites, that we cannot do.
HERZL: [I said that we based our movement solely on the sufferings of the Jews, and wished to put aside all religious issues].
POPE: Yes, but we, but I as the head of the Catholic Church, cannot do this. One of two things will likely happen. Either the Jews will retain their ancient faith and continue to await the Messiah whom we believe has already appeared—in which case they are denying the divinity of Jesus and we cannot assist them. Or else they will go there with no religion whatever, and then we can have nothing at all to do with them. The Jewish faith was the foundation of our own, but it has been superceded by the teachings of Christ, and we cannot admit that it still enjoys any validity. The Jews who should have been the first to acknowledge Jesus Christ have not done so to this day.
HERZL: [It was on the tip of my tongue to remark, “It happens in every family: no one believes in his own relative.” But, instead, I said:] Terror and persecution were not precisely the best means for converting the Jews. [His reply had an element of grandeur in its simplicity:]
POPE: Our Lord came without power. He came in peace. He persecuted no one. He was abandoned even by his apostles. It was only later that he attained stature. It took three centuries for the Church to evolve. The Jews therefore had plenty of time in which to accept his divinity without duress or pressure. But they chose not to do so, and they have not done it yet.
HERZL: But, Holy Father, the Jews are in a terrible plight. I do not know if Your Holiness is aware of the full extent of their tragedy. We need a land for these harried people.
POPE: Must it be Jerusalem?
HERZL: We are not asking for Jerusalem, but for Palestine—for only the secular land.
POPE: We cannot be in favor of it.
[Editor Lowenthal interjects here] Here unrelenting replacement theology is plainly upheld as the norm of the Roman Catholic Church. Further, this confession, along with the whole tone of the Pope in his meeting with Herzl, indicates the perpetuation of a doctrinal emphasis that has resulted in centuries of degrading behavior toward the Jews. However, this response has the “grandeur” of total avoidance of that which Herzl had intimated, namely that the abusive reputation of Roman Catholicism toward the Jews was unlikely to foster conversion. Further, if, “It took three centuries for the Church to evolve,” it was that very same period of time that it took for the Church to consolidate and launch its thrust of anti-Semitism through the following centuries.
HERZL: Does Your Holiness know the situation of the Jews?
POPE: Yes, from my days in Mantua, where there are Jews. I have always been in friendly relations with Jews. Only the other evening two Jews were here to see me. There are other bonds than those of religion: social intercourse, for example, and philanthropy. Such bonds we do not refuse to maintain with the Jews. Indeed we also pray for them, that their spirit see the light. This very day the Church is celebrating the feast of an unbeliever who became converted in a miraculous manner—on the road to Damascus. And so if you come to Palestine and settle your people there, we will be ready with churches and priests to baptize all of you.
"The Jews have not recognized our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people." The One World Ecumenical Church that is the counterfeit church of conciliarism does indeed recognize the nonexistent "authority" of the leaders of a false religion, which belongs of its very nature to the devil himself, blaspheming God and spitting on the concern that true popes and countless missionaries, starting with Saint Peter the other Eleven Apostles on the first Pentecost Sunday, to seek the conversion of Jews, both those of the blood of Abraham and those who are the adherents of the Talmud by means of being descended from the Khazar converts to this egregiously blasphemous document at the end of the First Millennium. It is an act of paramount anti-Semitism to refrain from seeking the conversion of those steeped in the blindness of Talmudic Judaism. It is an act of supreme disloyalty to Christ the King to render unto a leader of a false religion sworn to oppose Him and His Royal Rights any recognition of legitimacy, no less obeisance and obsequiousness.
The counterfeit church of conciliarism has demonstrated that it does "recognize" and "respect" the "legitimacy" of Talmudic Judaism. This new statement is yet another concession of this tragic fact, another manifestation of the belief that those in the false religion of Talmudic Judaism are more or less assured of their salvation, that their immortal souls are not in any jeopardy whatsoever of being lost for all eternity.
Once again, let us turn to a true Pope, Saint Peter himself, to see how the Catholic Church addresses the Jews:
Ye men of Judea, and all you that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known to you, and with your ears receive my words. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day:
But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel: And it shall come to pass, in the last days, (saith the Lord,) I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And upon my servants indeed, and upon my handmaids will I pour out in those days of my spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord come.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you, by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God did by him, in the midst of you, as you also know: This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain. Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it. For David saith concerning him: I foresaw the Lord before my face: because he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved.
For this my heart hath been glad, and any tongue hath rejoiced: moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David; that he died, and was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this present day. Whereas therefore he was a prophet, and knew that God hath sworn to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon his throne.
Foreseeing this, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ. For neither was he left in hell, neither did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised again, whereof all we are witnesses. Being exalted therefore by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured forth this which you see and hear. For David ascended not into heaven; but he himself said: The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.
Therefore let all the house of Israel know most certainly, that God hath made both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus, whom you have crucified. Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in their heart, and said to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles: What shall we do, men and brethren? But Peter said to them: Do penance, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call. And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation
They therefore that received his word, were baptized; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls. And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles, and in the communication of the breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: many wonders also and signs were done by the apostles in Jerusalem, and there was great fear in all. And all they that believed, were together, and had all things common. Their possessions and goods they sold, and divided them to all, according as every one had need. (Acts 2: 14-41.)
Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI will indeed show his "esteem" for a number of false religions--and for the Judeo-Masonic United Nations--in the next few weeks. His "esteem" for false religions and for an organization that is an enemy of the Social Reign of Christ the King shows himself to be an enemy of God and of the souls for whom He shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood. Once again, Joseph Ratzinger's "esteem" for false religions, including Talmudic Judaism, stands in sharp contrast to the admonition offered by Bishop George Hay a little over two centuries ago, an admonition worth repeating one more time to demonstrate the gravity of Ratzinger's apostasy and of his total contempt for those things about the Catholic "past" his evolutionary concept of truth permits him to consider "irrelevant" and no longer "binding" upon "modern" man:
A. The spirit of Christ, which dictated the Holy Scriptures, and the spirit which animates and guides the Church of Christ, and teaches her all truth, is the same; and therefore in all ages her conduct on this point has been uniformly the same as what the Holy Scripture teaches. She has constantly forbidden her children to hold any communication, in religious matters, with those who are separated from her communion; and this she has sometimes done under the most severe penalties. In the apostolical canons, which are of very ancient standing, and for the most part handed down from the apostolical age, it is thus decreed: "If any bishop, or priest, or deacon, shall join in prayers with heretics, let him be suspended from Communion". (Can. 44)
Also, "If any clergyman or laic shall go into the synagogue of the Jews, or the meetings of heretics, to join in prayer with them, let him be deposed, and deprived of communion". (Can. 63)
So also, in one of her most respected councils, held in the year 398, at which the great St. Augustine was present, she speaks thus: "None must either pray or sing psalms with heretics; and whosoever shall communicate with those who are cut off from the Communion of the Church, whether clergyman or laic, let him be excommunicated". (Coun. Carth. iv. 72 and 73)
The same is her language in all ages; and in this she shows herself to be the true mother, who will not suffer her children to be divided. She knows her heavenly spouse has declared that "no man can serve two masters; we cannot serve God and Mammon;" and therefore she must either have them to be hers entirely, or she cannot acknowledge them as such. She knows His holy apostle has protested that there can be no "participation, no fellowship, no concord, no pact, no agreement between the faithful and the unbeliever;" and therefore she never can allow any of her faithful children to have any religious communication with those of a false religion and corrupted Faith. (The Laws of God Forbidding All Communication in Religion With Those of a False Religion.)
The new statement from the conciliar Vatican's Secretariat of State--and Joseph Ratzinger's past and forthcoming acts of disloyalty to the Catholic Faith by "esteeming" false religions and participating in "inter-religious prayer" ceremonies--cannot be reconciled in the slightest to Bishop George Hay's simple reiteration of the consistent, unbroken teaching of the Catholic Church from the time of Pentecost Sunday to the time of the dawning of the age of conciliarsm in 1958. And how is it possible for Walter "Cardinal" Kasper to keep reiterating over and over and over again the apostasy that the "Catholic Church has no organized or institutionalized mission to the Jews," doing so in the pages of L'Osservatore Romano, if he did not have the full and complete support of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI? Rash judgment? How about simple common sense?
Today, in addition to being the Feast of Saint Vincent Ferrer, the great and zealous missionary to Jews and Mohammedans (and sinful Catholics who had fallen away from the practice of the Faith), is the First Saturday of the Month of April, which is the Month of Saint Joseph this year. This First Saturday comes within the nine days between the transferred Feast of Saint Joseph, the Chaste Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the foster-father of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and the Easter feast of Saint Joseph which is commemorated on the Wednesday after the Second Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday).
We need to invoke the intercession of the Mother of God and of Most Chaste Spouse, the Patron of the Universal Church and the Protector of the Faithful, to help us to cleave to true bishops and true priests in the Catholic catacombs where no concessions whatsoever are made to the multiple apostasies of conciliarism or to the nonexistent "legitimacy" of its false shepherds. No can Catholic should want to be in association with ravenous wolves who confuse and bewilder and scandalize the Catholic faithful as they reaffirm non-Catholics in false religions, each of which is held up for esteem and veneration. We must ask Saint Joseph to keep us safe as he kept the Holy Family safe, for we are in a figurative "flight into Egypt" ourselves at the present moment in the Mystical Passion, Death and Burial of the Church Militant on earth, ever relying upon His Ever-Virginal Spouse, the Blessed Virgin Mary, by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life will permit.
This time of apostasy and betrayal and scandal will pass. May our fidelity to Our Lady's Fatima Message in our own daily lives help to plant a few seeds for the restoration of the Church in all of her glory as the apostasies of conciliarsm, including its rejection of the Social Reign of Christ the King, are vanquished once and for all by the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the very means through which we offer our prayers and sufferings and mortifications and penances and humiliations to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
Vivat Christus Rex! Viva Cristo Rey!
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
