Have Your Say 

Recent Comments

1. As a Jewish Catholic, I know more about bigotry on both sides than I wish I did; but I understand Jewish aversion to Catholics, which I met in my youth, because of all the persecution.
   The older Jews I knew best did not know about the heroic Christians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. That info was given to the world after many of these oldies had already died.

   Posted By: Dr Susan Reibel Moore

2. Anyone who has experienced what it is like to be a persecuted minority should have empathy with the Jews.
   But how did Christians in general lose this empathy?
   How did they so quickly forget that Jesus was a Rabbi in the Jewish tradition; that the first disciples were Jews; that Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles was a Pharisee?
   I blame the Emperor Constantine. Once christianity became absorbed into the pursuit and maintenance of power, property and prestige, its Jewish roots were benignly neglected.
   Of course references in John's gospel to the Jews, when he meant a majority of the Jewish leaders, gave ammunition to those who wanted to severe christianity from its Jewish roots. The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
   My father, a Roman Catholic, suffered persecution and had to depart his native land to do an apprenticeship after World War 1.
   He always objected to the reference in the old Good Friday liturgy to 'the perfidious Jews'.
   How would you feel, he'd ask us if your Anglican or Lutheran friends prayed of you - as perfidious catholics?
   But political agitators, of the Left and the Right, could always find scapegoats. They knew how to manipulate religious differences.
   But let us never forget there were and still are a valiant few who resisted their blandishments.

   Posted By: Joe

• » Advertise in CathNews

Email to Friend Please fill out the following details (fields marked with a * are mandatory):
Send To Email Address*:
Send To Name *:
Sent By Email Address*:
Sent By Name *:
Text to include in email:
Captcha validation:	please enter the code above:

^ Page Top

Comment on this article

More from this section

1. Remarrying Bangladeshi Catholics suffer discrimination

   Bangladeshi Catholics who want to remarry face such discrimination that many are opting for civil ceremonies rather than take their vows in church, reports Ucanews.

2. Featured website - Religion News Blog

   Religion News Blog (RNB) provides busy religion professionals, academics, reporters and others with a daily round-up of religion news. It has a particular focus on issues dealing with ‘cults,’ ‘sects,’ ‘abusive churches,’ and related issues - including religious persecution and human rights.

3. The Silver Linings Playbook

   The Silver Linings Playbook is the first movie in over 30 years to score Oscar nominations in all four acting categories - including best supporting actress for Australia's own Jackie Weaver.
   

4. In Los Angeles, a victory for truth

   those familiar with the protocols of the Catholic hierarchy, the news was stunning. The archbishop of Los Angeles publicly rebuked his predecessor, a cardinal, for his failures in dealing with the priest sex abuse scandal. The action by Archbishop Jose Gomez (pictured), relieving Cardinal Roger Mahony of "any administrative or public duties," was remarkable on two levels, writes NCR Online in an editorial.
   

5. Humanising the Trinity

   In his debut novel, The Shack, author Wm Young developed three human characters to represent the Trinity. The book was a runaway best seller, and now Young is back with his next offering, in which the Trinity reappears as three new characters, reports The Catholic Herald.