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When “Man” is backed into a corner,they will pull many a desperate measures to shift the blame elsewhere.This is text book on criminal profiling…
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Bishop quoted as saying “Zionist attack” behind criticism of church.
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LONDON – An Italian Catholic Web site is claiming that a retired bishop has blamed the Jews for the current backlash against the church over sex abuse claims.
Giacomo Babini, 81, the emeritus bishop of Grosseto, allegedly said in an article on the Pontifex Web site that he believed a “Zionist attack” was behind the criticism of the church, considering how “powerful and refined” the criticism was.
“They do not want the church, they are its natural enemies. Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are God killers,” he was quoted as saying.
Louemma’s (name removed by moderator)utTHE JEWS WANTED JESUS CRUCIFIED AND THE GENTILES NAILED HIM TO THE CROSS,SO JEWS AND GENTILES ARE BOTH GOD KILLERS
The comments were spotted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) on Friday.
Referring to the comments as anti-Semitic libel and to Pontifex as an extremist Catholic right-wing Web site, AJC is calling on the Italian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CEI) to condemn the comments.
“Babini, the retired Bishop of Grosetto, referring to the pedophile scandals, accused Jews of a ‘refined Zionist’ media attack against the Church. He called Jews a ‘Deicide’ people and inferred that the Holocaust took place due to Jews ‘strangling Germany economically’ through ‘usury,’” the AJC said.
“We urge the Italian Bishops Conference to categorically condemn these slanderous stereotypes, which sadly evoke the worst Christian and Nazi propaganda prior to World War II,” said Rabbi David Rosen, AJC’s International director of Interreligious Affairs.
“The high level of mutual trust and solidarity that binds our two communities today demands that there be zero tolerance for such defamatory statements by religious representatives.”
One of the highest representatives of the CEI told the AJC that Babini’s comments were contrary to Catholic thinking.
“These remarks are entirely contrary to the official line and mainstream thought of the Catholic Church,” Bishop Vincenzo Paglia told the AJC.
In a statement, CEI denied that Babini had given the interview.
“Statements I have never made about our Jewish brothers have been attributed to me,” Babini said on Monday.
In a response posted on its Web site, Pontifex said it stood by its story and that Babini has previously made anti-Semitic comments.
Pontifex claimed that in an interview on January 27, Babini said: “The Jews use the Holocaust as a club” and on January 25 said: “The Jews are no longer our brothers, they overslept at the coming of Christ, they have chosen not to be our brothers.”
Truly sad when we know that Christ is for all those who will accept him.Now in having said that we as Christians should be ashamed for those who call themselves Christians to put forth this type of Christian that is in fact no christian at all.
The one who can reflect Christ through the christian is to show the love of God that is in the Christian(Remember Jesus tells us to love our neighbor as our own self.)
To say that the Jews are no longer our brothers,goes against the very thing that Christ has commanded the children of God to do
Mark 12:28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.[e] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[f] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[g]There is no commandment greater than these.”
32 “Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. 33To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
JPost.comInternational
Bishop quoted as saying “Zionist attack” behind criticism of church.
Talkbacks (18)
LONDON – An Italian Catholic Web site is claiming that a retired bishop has blamed the Jews for the current backlash against the church over sex abuse claims.
Giacomo Babini, 81, the emeritus bishop of Grosseto, allegedly said in an article on the Pontifex Web site that he believed a “Zionist attack” was behind the criticism of the church, considering how “powerful and refined” the criticism was.
“They do not want the church, they are its natural enemies. Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are God killers,” he was quoted as saying.
Louemma’s (name removed by moderator)utTHE JEWS WANTED JESUS CRUCIFIED AND THE GENTILES NAILED HIM TO THE CROSS,SO JEWS AND GENTILES ARE BOTH GOD KILLERS
The comments were spotted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) on Friday.
Referring to the comments as anti-Semitic libel and to Pontifex as an extremist Catholic right-wing Web site, AJC is calling on the Italian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CEI) to condemn the comments.
“Babini, the retired Bishop of Grosetto, referring to the pedophile scandals, accused Jews of a ‘refined Zionist’ media attack against the Church. He called Jews a ‘Deicide’ people and inferred that the Holocaust took place due to Jews ‘strangling Germany economically’ through ‘usury,’” the AJC said.
“We urge the Italian Bishops Conference to categorically condemn these slanderous stereotypes, which sadly evoke the worst Christian and Nazi propaganda prior to World War II,” said Rabbi David Rosen, AJC’s International director of Interreligious Affairs.
“The high level of mutual trust and solidarity that binds our two communities today demands that there be zero tolerance for such defamatory statements by religious representatives.”
One of the highest representatives of the CEI told the AJC that Babini’s comments were contrary to Catholic thinking.
“These remarks are entirely contrary to the official line and mainstream thought of the Catholic Church,” Bishop Vincenzo Paglia told the AJC.
In a statement, CEI denied that Babini had given the interview.
“Statements I have never made about our Jewish brothers have been attributed to me,” Babini said on Monday.
In a response posted on its Web site, Pontifex said it stood by its story and that Babini has previously made anti-Semitic comments.
Pontifex claimed that in an interview on January 27, Babini said: “The Jews use the Holocaust as a club” and on January 25 said: “The Jews are no longer our brothers, they overslept at the coming of Christ, they have chosen not to be our brothers.”
Truly sad when we know that Christ is for all those who will accept him.Now in having said that we as Christians should be ashamed for those who call themselves Christians to put forth this type of Christian that is in fact no christian at all.
The one who can reflect Christ through the christian is to show the love of God that is in the Christian(Remember Jesus tells us to love our neighbor as our own self.)
To say that the Jews are no longer our brothers,goes against the very thing that Christ has commanded the children of God to do
Mark 12:28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.[e] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[f] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[g]There is no commandment greater than these.”
32 “Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. 33To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
