Fr Feeney who publicly referred to Jews as “Kikes” neither divested himself of his views or made any attempt to recant his anti-Semitic views toward Jews or Judaism.
Don’t know then if we are refering to the same Feeney, will have to verify this for myself.
Gehenom in Judaism would be similar to your purgatory.
You only have to read the threads on this forum to understand that the issue of Jews and Catholic Hell is either in contention among adherents to Catholicism or not understood by adherents to Catholicism.
"Modern day Judaism, even the religion practiced by the Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox, is rabbinical Judaism and not biblical Judaism. The following excerpt concerning the afterlife is from the web site “Judaism 101” (emphasis mine):
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Traditional Judaism firmly believes that death is not the end of human existence. However, because Judaism is primarily focused on life here and now rather than on the afterlife, Judaism does not have much dogma about the afterlife, and leaves a great deal of room for personal opinion. It is possible for an Orthodox Jew to believe that the souls of the righteous dead go to a place similar to the Christian heaven, or that they are reincarnated through many lifetimes, or that they simply wait until the coming of the messiah, when they will be resurrected. Likewise, Orthodox Jews can believe that the souls of the wicked are tormented by demons of their own creation, or that wicked souls are simply destroyed at death, ceasing to exist."
members.tripod.com/lastdayscalendar/annihilation_or_torment_.htm
Gehennom (lit: the valley of Hinnom, in Jerusalem;
i.e. hell) is the sinner’s experience in the afterlife. In other
words, it’s the same “place” as gan eiden (lit: the garden of Eden;
i.e. heaven) – it’s the perspective of the individual that makes it
one or the other.
faqs.org/faqs/judaism/FAQ/06-Jewish-Thought/section-9.html
“Not all souls merit Gehenom. It is for people who have done good but need to be purified. A handful of people are too evil for Gehenom, and they are punished eternally. Pharaoh is one example.”
judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_afterlife.htm
“At least in the postexilic portions of the Hebrew Bible (those written after the Babylonian captivity), death does not hold the same fate for all. The unjust, the improperly buried, and the untimely dead endure the misery of Sheol, but, for those who die in God’s favour, the natural bitterness of death is mitigated by reunion with their ancestors. Late prophetic books, concerned with the vindication of God’s justice, warn of a coming “Day of the Lord” in which the wicked will be burned up like stubble (Malachi 4:1), the corpses of God’s enemies will suffer endless corruption (Isaiah 66:24), and evildoers who have died will be resurrected to “shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2) while the just enjoy the fulfillment of God’s promises. In some postbiblical Jewish writings, Gehenna, the incineration ground where children had once been sacrificed to the god Moloch, emerges as a realm of postmortem punishment more like hell than Sheol. In Gehenna the unjust dead would suffer a fiery torment of duration and severity proportionate to their crimes.”
britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/260218/hell/260268/Judaism
I am little confused, does this mean that Judaism may have mulitple ideas of the afterlife.
P.S. . . . since on this forum even many Catholics believe that the God of the Jews and the Catholic god is not the same, we obviously can’t both be monotheist.
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