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To: Buggman
"Deliberately"? You want us to take everything the Vatican does in the best possible light, but you cheerfully slander the Rabbinate at the drop of a hat?

I think you should apologize and rephrase.

Actually, people with charitable relations do take people's actions in the best possible light. In this case, it is simply not reasonable to interpret the excommunication as an endorsement of Williamson's wacky views when the Pope has specifically contradicted those wacky views countless times, and most recently again as a result of this brouhaha. The Pope and the Church in general are not Holocaust deniers, and as the Church made clear in the Vatican II magisterial document Nostra Aetate, are not anti-Semitic and reject any doctrine of collective guilt. Given the above, I feel it must be a deliberate desire to slander the Pope and the Church for the Chief Rabbi to treat them as if this action shows they were endorsing Holocaust denial. Neither the excommunication nor the lifting thereof clearly have ANYTHING to do with endorsing Holocause denial. Having nutty views on historical matters not part of the deposit of the faith is not an excommunicable offense.

36 posted on 01/29/2009 8:45:58 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

See posts #33 and 35.


37 posted on 01/29/2009 8:53:43 AM PST by Buggman (HebrewRoot.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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