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From Watcher
Epa's comment is appropriate and important:
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Los Angeles Times: Poll: 'Anti-Semitic notions' on rise among French, other Europeans The French have grown more likely to believe that Jews hold too much power in business or world finance, as well as other "classical anti-Semitic notions," according...
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Jewish groups worried by Vatican gestureMore than 40 years of progress in Catholic-Jewish relations may be called into question by attempt to reach out to group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics, including Holocaust-denying bishop From Israel...
- The Pope's Side Of Things - Vatican Calls For Holocaust Denier To Recant
UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST Thanks to Carlos Echevarria for sending this to me: The president of the U.S. episcopal conference, Chicago's Cardinal Francis George, called the Holy Father's gesture to lift the excommunications "an act of mercy and...
- What The Pope Should Do To Reassure The World
From Newsweek/Washington Post's On Faith: Pope Benedict's decision to undo the excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson, an unrepentant Holocaust denier, has been met with wall to wall condemnation. Short of the launch of a new Crusade, it...
- Pope Rehabilitates Holocaust Denier
UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST This is idiocy. The Pope has crossed a line here, and my respect for him has been downgraded. From Reuters: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict Saturday rehabilitated a traditionalist bishop who denies the Holocaust, despite...
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RETIRED Italian Bishop: Jews caused Holocaust and are responsible for Catholic church pedophilia scandal
UPDATE - MIDNIGHT RIDER POINTS OUT THAT THIS BISHOP IS RETIRED, WHICH PRETTY MUCH MAKES THIS A NON-STORY!From Watcher
More...(IsraelNN.com) "The Holocaust of the Jews broke out because of the Jewish takeover of the German economy," said Italian Bishop Joakim Babini in an interview given to a far right Catholic website.(Times Online) A retired Italian bishop has provoked fury by reportedly suggesting that “Zionists” are behind the current storm of accusations over clerical sex abuse shaking the Vatican and the Catholic Church.
The bishop also accused the Jews of stirring up anger in the current case of church pedophilia. After his words caused a storm, Babini immediately issued a denial.
Monsignor Giacomo Babini, the Bishop Emeritus of Grossetto, was quoted by the Italian Roman Catholic website Pontifex as saying he believed a “Zionist attack” was behind the criticism of the Pope, given that it was “powerful and refined” in nature.
Bishop Babini denied he had made any anti-Semitic remarks. He was backed by the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), which issued a declaration by Bishop Babini in which he said: “Statements I have never made about our Jewish brothers have been attributed to me.”
However, Bruno Volpe, who interviewed Monsignor Babini for Pontifex, confirmed that the bishop had made the statement, which was reported widely in the Italian press today. Pontifex threatened to release the audio tape of the interview as proof. [...]
[...] Bishop Babini, 81, said Jews “do not want the Church, they are its natural enemies”. He added: “Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are deicides [God killers].”
He was quoted as saying that Hitler was “not just mad” but had exploited German anger over the excesses of German Jews who in the 1930s had throttled the German economy.
Epa's comment is appropriate and important:
Welcome to the 4th century
"they are its natural enemies", "the Jews are deicides"
What POSSIBLE use to any enlightened religion can this individual have?
Okay, Ratz, this ball is in your court.
WHAT IS GOING ON THIS YEAR?
In Canada – Two students at Ottawa’s Carlton University reported they were attacked with a machete after being chased by a group yelling in Arabic and English that they were Jews and Zionists…
In Greece – The nation’s largest newspaper, Ta Nea, published this vicious cartoon the “burning of Judas” an example of the overt anti-Semitism appearing annually throughout Greece during Easter. The cartoon appeared after a rash of other anti-Semitic incidents throughout the country and a spate of synagogue arsons in Crete...
In Hungary – Anti-Semitism played a role in the campaign leading up to national elections, stones were thrown through the windows of a Rabbi’s house during a Passover Seder, anti-Semitic graffiti was found in Budapest, a Holocaust memorial was damaged and neo-Nazis held an anti-Semitic rally in a city where Jews were killed in pogroms over a century ago…
In Argentina – “Die Jews” was spray-painted on a hotel in Santa Teresita where a Jewish group was celebrating Passover; some were also verbally assaulted and harassed…
In Slovakia – a Jewish cemetery was repeatedly desecrated and anti-Semitic slogans were spray-painted on tombstones in Zvolen where only 50 of hundreds of gravestones remain untouched; anti-Semitism is alive although no Jews have lived in the area since the Holocaust…
In France - a blatantly anti-Semitic demonstration was organized by a pro-Palestinian group who were planning to march by a synagogue during the Passover Sabbath in Drancy, a city which served as the transit-point for the deportaion of 72,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz under the Vichy government, the march was averted by the intervention of police…
At the Vatican – During the traditional Good Friday Service and in the presence of the Pope, a senior Vatican priest compared the ongoing uproar over sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church to the persecution of the Jews…
In Latvia - SWC Israel Director, Dr. Efraim Zuroff helped lead a counter demonstration against World War II Latvian Waffen-SS Veterans and denounced "the glorification of those who fought for a victory of the Third Reich, a regime directly responsible for the murder of millions of innocent civilians."
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Los Angeles Times: Poll: 'Anti-Semitic notions' on rise among French, other Europeans The French have grown more likely to believe that Jews hold too much power in business or world finance, as well as other "classical anti-Semitic notions," according...
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Jewish groups worried by Vatican gestureMore than 40 years of progress in Catholic-Jewish relations may be called into question by attempt to reach out to group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics, including Holocaust-denying bishop From Israel...
- The Pope's Side Of Things - Vatican Calls For Holocaust Denier To Recant
UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST Thanks to Carlos Echevarria for sending this to me: The president of the U.S. episcopal conference, Chicago's Cardinal Francis George, called the Holy Father's gesture to lift the excommunications "an act of mercy and...
- What The Pope Should Do To Reassure The World
From Newsweek/Washington Post's On Faith: Pope Benedict's decision to undo the excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson, an unrepentant Holocaust denier, has been met with wall to wall condemnation. Short of the launch of a new Crusade, it...
- Pope Rehabilitates Holocaust Denier
UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST This is idiocy. The Pope has crossed a line here, and my respect for him has been downgraded. From Reuters: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict Saturday rehabilitated a traditionalist bishop who denies the Holocaust, despite...