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Candace Owens, a Catholic convert and former pundit at the Daily Wire, has come under fire for anti-Semitic rhetoric, including promoting the “blood libel” charge and linking Judaism to pedophilia. She is not alone among Jew-bashers with large online followings trying to claim the label of “Catholic right” these days (notorious anti-Semite Nick Fuentes and some lesser-knowns do the same). But Owens stands out because her recent conversion in April through London’s fabled Brompton Oratory has coincided with her increasingly impassioned attacks on Jews qua Jews, creating the impression that the two are linked.
They aren’t. Neither she nor other Catholics inexplicably stirring up ancient hatreds can speak for Church teaching toward those whom Pope John Paul II called “our elder brothers in the faith of Abraham.”
The obvious hurdle to Catholic anti-Semitism is that Jesus was a Jew. In each of the four Gospel accounts of the Last Supper, Jesus calls his blood the “everlasting covenant”—the same phrase used to describe God’s covenants with Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David. He also said that he had not come “to abolish the law or the prophets,” but “to fulfill.”
Though the Church was slow to respond to the violence of everyday Christians against Jews in the Middle Ages, pontiffs forcefully condemned anti-Semitic violence starting with the papal bull Sicut Judaeis (1120), issued after the First Crusade in Europe and reaffirmed by eighteen popes during the subsequent three centuries. Of critical importance, the bull permitted excommunication for mistreatment of Jews through forcible conversion, property seizures, or religious interference, as well as violence—which meant an eternity in hell for unrepentant anti-Semites.
The 1566 Catechism of the Council of Trent authoritatively states:
This guilt [for the death of Christ] seems more enormous in us than in the Jews, since according to the testimony of the same Apostle: If they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory; while we, on the contrary, professing to know Him, yet denying Him by our actions, seem in some sort to lay violent hands on him.
More recently, the Second Vatican Council’s document Nostra Aetate (1965) holds that the covenant with the Jewish people remains intact:
The 1566 Catechism of the Council of Trent authoritatively states:
[T]he Church of Christ acknowledges that, according to God’s saving design, the beginnings of her faith and her election are found already among the Patriarchs, Moses and the prophets . . . [t]he Church believes that by His cross Christ, Our Peace, reconciled Jews and Gentiles, making both one in Himself.
Pope Saint John Paul II called consistently throughout his life for solidarity between Christians and Jews, observing in 1982 that “the links between the Church and the Jewish people are grounded in the design of the God of the Covenant.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches … Continue
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How Hamas Was Formed and Which Nations Support the Terror Group?
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