Sunday, January 25, 2009

By Forgiving Traditionalists, the Pope Offends Jews

After years of restoration work the Christian community has done regarding the injustices toward our Hebrew brethren, the article below may be a sign in the opposite direction.

Let us remember what God said about His original chosen people:
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."


Below is an excerpt of the article from:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1873855,00.html

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By Forgiving Traditionalists, the Pope Offends Jews

Pope Benedict XVI has reinstated four bishops from an archconservative breakaway wing of the Roman Catholic Church, a decision that is bound to stir controversy within his own flock. But Saturday's announcement that the Vatican will undo the 20-year schism between the Vatican and the so-called Lefebvrian movement is all the more sensitive because it comes only days after the broadcast of an interview in which British-born Bishop Richard Williamson, one of those Benedict is bringing back into the fold, denies that the Nazi Holocaust ever happened.


"I believe there were no gas chambers," Williamson said. The bishop, who has been accused of anti-Semitism in the past, declared that the historical evidence was "hugely against" the accepted belief that close to 6 million Jews were systematically exterminated as part of Adolf Hitler's Final Solution. Williamson claims that no more than 300,000 Jews died during World War II. (View images of the pope in France)