Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Political Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,3-4 (2009) 7-29
Keywords:
Benedict
;
Williamson, Richard
;
Catholic Church Foreign relations
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
;
Israel Foreign relations
;
Catholic Church
Abstract:
Deplores the rising conservative tendency in the Catholic Church and the fact that the Church is distancing itself from Vatican Council II and from "Nostra aetate". This tendency manifested itself during the pontificate of John Paul II and has been continued by Benedict XVI. Among its landmarks was the revocation of the excommunication of the four Lefebvrian bishops (followers of Bishop Marcel Lefebvre, who refused to accept Vatican Council II). One of the Lefebvrians, Richard Williamson, gave an interview, in which he denied the Holocaust, only one day after his reinstatement as a bishop. The tendency to Christianize the Holocaust, to present it as a deed of a "pagan" regime, of which the Church was also a victim, is continuing. During his visit to Israel in 2009, as well as in other pronouncements, Benedict XVI laid the responsibility for the continuing violence in the Middle East on the State of Israel, failing to mention Palestinian terrorism. Vatican policy may lead the Jewish-Catholic dialogue to an insurmountable impasse.
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