[Redleg Duke]

All of us are "responsible" for Jesus' death on the cross. He was sent here to do so for our sins.

That being said, it is about time that the Roman Catholic Church corrected this belief that was the justification for so much hatred and abuse through the history of the Christian Church!

[achilles2000]

All of us are “responsible” for Jesus’ death on the cross. He was sent here to do so for our sins.”

We are not responsible at all in any intelligible sense, but we are beneficiaries.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Murderous hatred of Jews has always been a sin, but it has never been a doctrine. ("Look not on our sins, but on the faith of Your Church.") If hatred were a doctrine, it would have started on a fine spring morning in around 33 AD. But it didn't.

[Unam Sanctam]

That being said, it is about time that the Roman Catholic Church corrected this belief that was the justification for so much hatred and abuse through the history of the Christian Church!

There was never any official teaching about collective guilt of Jews, although the odd Father of the Church may perhaps be cited as promoting it. Vatican II's "Nostra Aetate" was the relevant clarification, back in the 1960s, that not all Jews then, nor all Jews now, are responsible for the death of Christ. There is also plenty of teaching from throughout the centuries that the sins of mankind generally are what put Christ to death. Pope Benedict says nothing new here.