I really do think that some of our Cardinals and Bishops need to put down their crack pipes! I mean just what was this Cardinal thinking??
Call for Jews to stop calling Jesus a bastard
A senior American cardinal has asked Jews to reconsider descriptions of Jesus as a “bastard” in exchange for a softening of traditional Catholic prayers calling for Jews to be converted to Christianity.
The controversial comments, by Cardinal Francis George of the Archdiocese of Chicago, concern a prayer said during Easter celebrations by the small number of parishes or priests who celebrate a particular form of Good Friday mass.
Those version of Good Friday prayers calls for the congregation to pray for Jews to be converted to Christianity.
But Cardinal George said this prayer should be amended to ensure it did not offend Jews.
“I suspect (the amendment) probably will be (made), because the intention is to be sure that our prayers are not offensive to the Jewish people who are our ancestors in the faith,” Cardinal George said in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter.
“We can’t possibly insult them in our liturgy … not that any group has a veto on anybody’s prayers, because you can go through Jewish texts and find material that is offensive to us. But if we’re interested in keeping the dialogue strong, and we have to be, we should be very cautious about any prayer that they find insulting.”
But this should mean that Jews, in turn, consider amending their own religious texts, he said.
“It does work both ways. Maybe this is an opening to say, ‘Would you care to look at some of the Talmudic literature’s description of Jesus as a bastard, and so on, and maybe make a few changes in some of that?’”
Cardinal George really needs to think before he speaks! Does he honestly think changing a Catholic Prayer is going to convince the Jews to change their religious texts? And the bigger question, WHY should we change our prayers..they are CATHOLIC PRAYERS that CATHOLICS say. If the Jews dont want to believe in Jesus Christ, that is their choice (last I checked God did give all men free will). If they want to call Jesus a “bastard”, while I take offense to it, it is their right. Why is Cardinal George more worried about how the Jews feel about a Catholic Prayer, a prayer that is said out of Christian Charity by the way? Arent their more important things to be worried about???
Possibly we need to ressurect the red-hat for cardinals. It seemed to keep their brain oxygenated.
The Talmud does a whole lot more than just call Jesus a “bastard.” It is very offensive to Catholics. It’s good the Cardinal brought that to light, but he should have skipped the PC part about us changing one little phrase in a prayer that is only used once a year.
BTW, the Jews don’t allow the Talmud to be translated – I guess that helps them to protect their offensive prayers from popular knowledge.
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I know that the Talmud is very offensive to Catholics…but I did not want to sidetrack the post (listing all of the offenses).
Maybe I will save that for another post though….as is Terry wants me to post about my youngest and his conversations with the “dead people” as he puts it
5 stars for the graphic.