Friday, September 07, 2012

The Catholic Church and Israel

Just read this:

Senior Catholic cleric: 'If Jews want respect, they must respect others'

In the wake of the 'price tag' vandalism at the Latrun monastery, Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa cautions Israelis over how Christians are treated in Israel.

Now, I do not at all wish to take away from my anger, chagrin and condemnation at the act of torching and vandalism.  Not all.

It's criminal.  Bad. Wrong.

It is stupid.  Unhelpful.

It is damaging for sure.

But, just wait a second their Father Pizzaballa.

After what a few, alright, many Popes have done and said, what Crusaders have done, Catholic priests, kidnappings of Jewish children, guttersnipe hatred, and more, let's just keep things in proportion.

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5 comments:

Alan said...

I'm intensely familiar with the filipino catholic kids in South Tel Aviv. They have a close-to-zero rate of IDF-draft-dodging, which is a lot better than Tzfonbonim Jews.

I even fund scholarships for these sabra, native-Hebrew-speaking young people when they get honorably discharged.

Having said that, these kids are a completely different kettle of fish than Father Pizzaball. He should be expelled.

We should give Catholic lay people the same right to walk around Israel as Jews have in Vatican City. Full rights.

And we should give their CLERGY, the same rights that rabbis have to establish synagogues in Vatican City.

This is pragmatism.... not ideology. The Vatican does understand power politics.

They also understand that they aren't the only Notzrim. It is also possible for some of "their" holy spots to be grabbed, then handed to (say for example) the International Christian Embassy. An organization which puts its Embassy in Jerusalem. How can we not respect that?

Anonymous said...

The Catholics and Israel have a common enemy. The Catholics are preparing their congregations to fight against this administration TO THE DEATH. You know, it states explicitely in scripture that the Islamic beast destroys the Catholic Church and I feel the preists have started taking Danials prophesys to heart.... since they are unfolding to the letter. The Catholic Church has decided if they are going to be destroyed they will go down fighting. Our Government knows this and that is why they are arming all goverment agencys, including Farrakans muslim brotherhood, with hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition. They know that church is not going down with out a fight but the beast will fight with them and he will take them down. I didn't say that Danial did. So Catholics are you brothers in this war with the beast. Treat them as kindred spirits.

Anonymous said...

As I have told you before, I was schooled in the old testament by a scholarly Jew, and became a Judeo-Christian and coupled Revelation with the book of Danial along with other old testament prophets. God because of the untimely deaths of some missionarys was allowed to give me a blood bought annointing. Not bragging, its not really anything to boast about, its just that God talks to me, actually He won't leave me along when he wants you to know something. I'm only telling you this to add some credence to what I am about to tell you. You need to understand this so you will not be blindsided. Their are two beasts, symbolocally speaking, that come against Israel and against Christianity. They come against Israel first. As stated by Danial the first beast uses the forces of the gay agenda as a tool for the take down of Israel.The second beast is Islamic and gathers the forces of Islam against Israel,together they join forces for the finale take down of Israel. It seems that Danial infers that the first beast is gay,too. Is Soros gathering the forces for the finale take down of Israel? The first beast in my opinion is Soros, the second beast is Obama, they are accompanied by the protititute and I'll let you guess who she is. I will refer to her as the skank. I know Soros followed the Germans around and pilfered what he could as Jews were sent to concentration camps. He used that money to build his empires. What does he have to gain by the destruction of Israel. The mossad should hunt him down, put him on trial, and confiscate all his assets world wide. Is that what he is afraid of? Most bandits want to kill those they have robbed it lessens the chances they will be caught.

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