Benedict XVI criticized for new article on Jewish-Christian

[Denise]

http://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/bene ... ns/43680/1

[KarlB]

And the Chief Rabbi of Vienna, Arie Folger, told Jüdische Allgemeine, the largest Jewish daily in Germany, that Benedict’s suggestion that Christians should teach Jews how the relevant passages in the Hebrew Bible are to be understood from the Christological point of view was “most problematic.â€￾

The fact that this opinion has gained credence with Christian theologians and the Catholic clergy and Magisterium just shows the loss of confidence that pervades the Western Church now. Any assertion that it has a messianic and eschatological mission, that it is the holder of a transcendant and singular Truth, is deemed to be out of synch with an attitude of complacency and submission to the cultural zeitgeist.

Catholicism, then, represents no more than a semblance of rubrics with no special distinction between them and other faith perspectives. Furthermore that is has no responsibility or right to 'impose' its moral credo on others. It's lead by an attitude that is rampant in the German Church under the tutelage of the German Bishops Conference.

Any way, well done Benedictus, for holding the torch in a Church inundated in torrents of confusion and defeatism.