Catholics should not try to convert Jews, Vatican says

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:42am EST

Catholics should not try to convert Jews, Vatican says

VATICAN CITY | BY PHILIP PULLELLA

Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said on Thursday in a major new document that drew the Church further away from the strained relations of the past.

Christianity and Judaism are intertwined and God never annulled his covenant with the Jewish people, said the document from the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with Jews.

"The Church is therefore obliged to view evangelization to Jews, who believe in the one God, in a different manner from that to people of other religions and world views," it said.

It also said Catholics should be particularly sensitive to the significance to Jews of the Shoah, the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, and pledged "to do all that is possible with our Jewish friends to repel anti-Semitic tendencies".

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[trotsky]

1. "the strained relations of the past"

I guess it might put strain on a relationship when one party is trying to kill the other.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Add me to the Do-Not-Call list, please.

[Lordquinton]

3. Any bets?

On when the usual folks who complain about atheists tying to convert people are gonna chime in about how Catholics shouldn't be trying to convert anyone?

[Act_of_Reparation]

5. Just an observation:

The Pope didn't say "anyone". He said Jews, specifically. It sounds like conversions might still be on the menu for lots of other people.

[Lordquinton]

6. Exactily

H's big on evangelizing (Which, of course, is different from proselytizing)and I'm still trying to track down his quote where he said that without it the church will die.

[uriel1972]

4. Well that's something new from the RCC... nt

I guess we can forget all that anti-semitism and stuff they poured out in the last 2000 years. Oh and incidentley the last Ghetto in western Europe was in Vatican controlled Rome and closed in the 1870's I believe, by the Italian nationalists who drove the RCC back into the Vatican.