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To: The KG9 Kid
You mean to say that it's still in Catholic doctrine to believe that at least some Jews today are responsible for the death of Jesus?

The actual quote is:

True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ (13); still, what happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today.
I see nothing in there singling out any Jews of today for special blame.
54 posted on 03/02/2011 12:27:26 PM PST by Campion
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To: Campion
Seems that some quoting this "Nostra Aetate" have misinterpreted the statement and lay the blame for Jesus' death on at least some Jews today.

Sounds like this sort of mistaken understanding has been going on for about 1800 years and caused untold amount of inhuman horrors to be inflicted upon innocent people.

Blame the Vatican for these miscommunications, probably thanks in part to these edicts being transmitted in the peculiar, cumbersome, and unnecessarily complicated Latin language with all it's inflections: three genders, multiple verb conjugations, datives, accusatives, voices, aspects, Third person plural/present indicatives, and grammatical moods and numbers. Just absurd.

I have to wonder how many innocent Jews were burnt alive as heretics because some Galician archbishop didn't comprehend the Latin demonstrative pronoun or 'vocative vs. nominative' case in some Papal bull as written in illuminated Gothic blacklettering by a Austrian/Germanic monk acting as Vatican secretary who had only a slim conversational grasp of the medieval Romanisch-Italian language he was supposed to be transcribing.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

61 posted on 03/02/2011 12:51:49 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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