Messianic Judaism and Catholicism

[Tolkien1096]

What is the church’s official stance on Christians or Catholics who observe Jewish feats and law completely?

 

[edward_george1]

What is the church’s official stance

As with most things, the Church doesn’t have an official stance.

-Fr ACEGC

 

[catholic03]

As with most things, the Church doesn’t have an official stance.

-Fr ACEGC

Father,

Does this mean that in theory a Catholic with Jewish ancestry or with an attachment to such practices could observe them?

I am not in this situation but I understand that ‘Hebrew Catholics’ exist, and they do observe these.

Hebrew Catholics - Wikipedia

Thank you, Father.

 

[Tolkien1096]

That was my understanding as well. That in Spain converts kept the Jewish festivals/laws but also were Christians who went to mass I believe.

 

[Pattylt]

If you’re talking about the Middle Ages, the Jewish customs were done in secret and going to mass was forced.

 

[tafan2]

Not very good history of the middle age Spain.

 

[Elias]

Contemporary Messianic Judaism is not Catholicism. Hebrew Catholicism is, but not what is popularly known as Messianic Judaism (MJ). MJ is most akin to Baptists than with other sects of protestantism.

 

[Tolkien1096]

not so in fact.

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Scholar-Heaven-History-Inquisition/dp/B001JHT8A6

 

[Tolkien1096]

whos history are you reading?

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Scholar-Heaven-History-Inquisition/dp/B001JHT8A6

 

[tafan2]

The Inquisition did not force conversions, what it attempted to do was to weed out false conversions. A sad period of Spanish History, but it was not unusual for the times and also driven by the history of fighting the Moors.

As the great Catholic historian Warren Carroll wrote (paraphrasing by memory here): the most significant thing the Spanish learned from the Moors was cruelty.