Before Malachi Martin was laicized, he relished shaking down conservative cardinals at Vatican II

Ben L. Kaufman writes about Malachi Martin in The Cincinnati Enquirer and his book Jesus Now: How Jesus Has No Past Will Not Come Again and In Loving Action Is Dissolving the Mold of Our Spent Society.  The article-interview has several very interesting items of note.  Among them:

Malachi Martin was nothing like anyone could have expected. From his previous books, I knew he had been a Jesuit priest, archaeologist, rogue and strong-arm man for liberal organizers in the Vatican Council, and somewhat depressed observer of organized religion in the West.

The archeology mentioned above on which Martin worked, was the Dead Sea Scrolls of which, God willing, we will have a post on in the future. Also of note, is that Martin was working for the liberals at the Second Vatican Council. This is before Martin reinvented himself with the shtick of a conservative priest who was always loyal to the Catholic Church.

Martin was finishing his doctorate in Semitic languages at Louvain University in Belgium in the 1950s when he came to the attention of a leader of the liberal caucus in the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Bea. His dossier included Martin’s request for lay status, that is, he wanted to leave the active priesthood. Paths kept crossing and the cardinal recruited Father Martin as his aide-de-camp, Martin said, and a new career, about which Martin has really written little began.

Martin’s years at the Louvain relate to his study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and his questioning of Jesus the Christ. These qualities so impressed Cardinal Bea that he hand picked Martin to be his “aide-de-camp”. Yikes! Notice, “Martin’s request for lay status”.  The interview-article continues,

Martin went to Rome with Cardinal Bea, and as the cardinal and Pope John XXIII began rallying forces to push the Vatican Council, Martin was given exciting and seductive chores, he said. Some of his work involved intelligence gathering behind the Iron Curtain and throughout the Middle East, he said, and some of it involved shaking long closeted skeletons in the faces of cardinals who didn't quite want to do what Cardinal Bea and the pope wanted at the Vatican Council. "I saw cardinals sweating in front of me," Martin recalled with mixed emotions. It was heady, having that power, "and I began to enjoy it." A clear understanding of this malicious joy brought Martin to decide to get out of the Vatican power game, he said with a rare, calm and almost serious expression on his lively face, and he called in Cardinal Bea's promise to promote his request for lay status. By that time, Pope John was dead and Pope Paul VI was on the Throne of Peter, and no one really regretted seeing Martin go. You don't play that game without making powerful enemies Martin said, and his effectiveness had ended.  (Bold in original article.)

Here we have from Martin’s own blabbering mouth of him gathering intelligence on cardinals and using it to blackmail them into the desires which Cardinal Bea and John XXIII wanted at the Second Vatican Council. Martin said, “I saw cardinals sweating in front of me, and I began to enjoy it.” Hmm, isn’t it very interesting that the kindly old traditional priest character with salacious stories about the inner workings of the Vatican that Malachi Martin played in his later life never came clean or talked about his days at the Second Vatican Council? The reason for this is simple enough, Martin was a trickster having a joke at Catholics expense. What was Cardinal Bea responsible for at the Second Vatican Council? Bea was the unofficial ambassador from the Vatican who met with rabbis discussing with them what the Talmudic Jews wanted to happen at the Council (Nostra Aetate). He also met with members of the Orthodox Churches inviting them to the Council as observers and discussed with them how the Council would come to adopt their religious beliefs on the eucharist and ecumenicism (Lumen Gentium, Dignitatis humanae, Unitatis redintegratio, Catholic–Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965). Another interesting omission from the granfatherly-like character Martin played later in his life was that he was blackmailing those opposed to ecumenicism and as we have written previously Malachi Martin was an active participant in destruction of the Catholic Church. Martin then decides to take up Cardinal Bea’s promise and becomes laicized because, “You don't play that game without making powerful enemies... and [my] effectiveness had ended.” Any mention of the multitude of affairs Martin carried on? Nope. Any mention of Martin’s doubt of Catholicism? Nope. Why did he never mention this laicization later in life or the reasons for it? Simply because as we stated before Martin was a trickster having a joke on Catholics with his buddies in the occult lodge.

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source: ‘Jesus Now’ Author Not A Swashbuckler, Ben L. Kaufman, The Cincinnati Enquirer,  22 December 1973

the magic #6 at Yad Vashem

or the ravings of a madman

 

Remember this rabbi above?  We used a picture of in the blog entry, the true face of Talmudism shows itself.  Well, the rabbi pictured giving the devil horns is none other than Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh an American born chabad rabbi currently living in Israel.  In another entry, six hands kissed for six million!, we discussed the significance of Francis kissing the hands of  six people at Yad Vashem.  The excerpt below is from Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh's book on the mystical dimensions of the Hebrew alphabet, "The Alef Beit."  We provide this for our readers in case they know anyone who still thinks modern day Judaism has anthing to do with the Old Testament and to demonstrate these modern day Talmudists are the spiritual heirs of the people Christ referred to as following the man made "traditions of the elders."  So read on and learn all about the magic & mystical powers of the number six.  Thanks to Paul VI a reader of Call Me Jorge... for sending us this information.  The underlines are ours for emphasis.

The Hebrew letter vav.

The Hebrew Letters

The Mystical Significance of the Hebrew Letters

- VAV -

Connection

In the beginning of Creation, when Infinite Light filled all reality, G d contracted His Light to create hollow empty space, as it were, the "place" necessary for the existence of finite worlds. Into this vacuum G-d drew down, figuratively speaking, a single line of light, from the Infinite Source. This ray of light is the secret of the letter vav. Though the line is singular in appearance, it nonetheless possesses two dimensions, an external as well as an internal force, both of which take part in the process of Creation and the continuous interaction between the creative power and created reality.

The external force of the line is the power to differentiate and separate the various aspects of reality, thereby establishing hierarchical order, up and down, within Creation. The internal force of the line is the power to reveal the inherent interinclusion of the various aspects of reality, one in the other, thereby joining them together as an organic whole. This property of the letter vav, in its usage in Hebrew, is referred to as vav hachibur, the vav of connection"--"and." The first vav of the Torah--"In the beginning G d created the heavens and [vav] the earth"--serves to join spirit and matter, heaven and the earth, throughout Creation. This vav, which appears at the beginning of the sixth word of the Torah, is the twenty-second letter of the verse. It alludes to the power to connect and interrelate all twenty-two individual powers of Creation, the twenty two letters of the Hebrew alphabet from alef to tav. (The word et [which appears before the two instances of the word "the" in this verse, and is spelled alef-tav] is generally taken to represent all the letters of the alphabet, from alef to tav. Our Sages interpret the word in this verse to include all the various objects of Creation present within heaven and earth.)

In Biblical Hebrew, the letter vav also possesses the function of inverting the apparent tense of a verb to its opposite from past to future or from future to past (vav hahipuch). The first appearance of this type of vav in the Torah is the letter vav" which begins the twenty-second word of the account of Creation, "And G-d said...." This is the first explicit saying of the ten sayings of Creation: "And G d said [the verb 'said' being inverted from the future to the past tense by the vav at the beginning of the word--'And']: 'Let there be light,' and there was light." The phenomenon of light breaking through the darkness of the tzimtzum, the primordial contraction, is itself the secret of time (future becoming past) which permeates space.

In the Divine service of a Jew, the power to draw from the future into the past is the secret of teshuvah ("repentance" and "returning to G-d") from love. Through teshuvah from fear, one's deliberate transgressions become like errors; the severity of one's past transgressions becomes partially sweetened, but not completely changed. However, when a Jew returns in love, his deliberate transgressions become like actual merits, for the very consciousness of distance from G-d resulting from one's transgressions becomes the motivating force to return to G-d with passion even greater than that of one who had never sinned.

Every Jew has a portion in the World to Come, as is said: "And all your nation are 'tzadikim'; forever they will inherit the land."  The power of teshuvah to completely convert one's past to good, is the power of the vav to invert the past to the future. This transformation itself requires, paradoxically, the drawing down of light from the future to the past.

Drawing the future into the past in the Divine service of man is the secret of learning the inner teachings of the Torah, that aspect of the Torah which is related to the revelation of the coming of the Mashiach. Rashi explains the verse in the Song of Songs: "May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine" as alluding to the sweet teachings that will be revealed by the Mashiach. When a person intently studies the secrets of the Torah, he draws from the future into the past, in order to strengthen himself to return in complete teshuvah from love and thereby convert his past into future.

FORM

A vertical line.

A pillar.

A man standing upright.

Worlds:

• Twelve pillars of Creation - the twelve lines of a cube. The twelve tribes.
• Seven pillars of Creation - six directions and time. The seven shepherds.
• One pillar of Creation the future Mashiach.
• The connecting rods in the Tabernacle.

Souls:

• Complete stature of man - standing on earth with head reaching up towards heaven.
• The Jewish People standing together.
• The "Golden Path" in the service of G-d.
• The torso in relation to the hands, feet, and brit.

Divinity:

• The pillar of Truth.
• Consistency of the middle pillar.
• Divinity piercing through the middle point of every Creation.

NAME

A Hook

Worlds:

• The connecting hooks of the pillars in the Tabernacle - concealment and revelation.
• The axis of symmetry and the equilibrium between symmetry and asymmetry.

Souls:

• The power which links together the souls of Israel.
• The points of will to do G-d's Will engraved in the heart of every Jew.
• The axis which connects the good points present within every Jew.

Divinity:

• The connecting link between the separate Laws - engraved letters of Divine essence - of the Torah.
• The force of connection between the Divine sparks inherent throughout reality.

NUMBER

Six

Worlds:

• Six Days of Creation, and their six corresponding Divine forces active in creation.
• Six letters of the word bereishit, "In the beginning."
• Six alefs in the first verse of the Torah.
• Six-millennium duration of the world.
• Six directions of the physical world.

Souls:

• Six wings (states of love and fear in the soul) of the fiery angels.
• "Give truth to Jacob."

Divinity:

• Six orders of the Mishnah.
• The six "wings" of the "Magen David."
• Six cubits - the dimensions of the
• Tablets received by Moses at Mt. Sinai. 

Did you catch all that dear reader?  The letter vav has many meanings to Talmudists besides representing the number six.  It connects the the internal with the external, the creative power with created reality.  What reality was being created by Francis appearing at Yad Vashem and kissing six hands?  

Not only that but the rabbi teaches vav or the number six can mystically draw from the future to influence the past!  What a deluded mind Rabbi Ginsburgh has!  Is the future they hope for a Novus Ordo church subjected to the Noahide Laws?  

Our favorite is this dandy, when a Jew sins if eventually he returns to G-d, his sins now become merits!  So don't worry about the well being of your fellow man, you can abuse and abandon him, it is all good so long as you return to G-d.  Dear reader have you seen this played out before?  

Another gem  is when one studies the Torah, what we would properly call the Talmud, one can convert the past into the future.  Lastly, the vav or number six represents all the souls of Israel or the Jewish people standing together which are the divine essense, the spark of light, the foretold messiah as they look skywards towards heaven.   

One more we forgot is the vav or number six represents concealment and revelation.  This is what author Michael A. Hoffman has referred to in his writings as the Revelation of the Method.  In the end days, the cryptocracy in order to process the minds of the enslaved even more deeply, will reveal the methods they used to get their victims to subject themselves to voluntary slavery.

Francis is many things but he is no idiot.  He knows all the minutiae concerning the modern day religion of Judaism.  It has come out in interviews he looks to the rabbis on how to interpret the Bible & the teachings of Christ and keeps several rabbinical tomes in his 'apartment' which he regularly consults.  We would bet Francis knows all the above and more.  So his act of going to Yad Vashem where he kissed six hands was an act of mystical rabbinical magic in which he spiritually submitted to the supremacy of talmudic rabbinical Jewish religion.  At least, this was the sign the deluded minds of the rabbinical practitioners of Jewish magic saw Francis giving at Yad Vashem.  All this leads us to another question we here at Call Me Jorge... will , God willing, one day answer.  Why is Francis kowtowing to these insane individuals?

new dogmas of the Novus Ordo

“...inside every Christian there is a Jew!”

 -Francis -

“Anti-Semitism is a sin!”

 -Francis -

 These were Francis' responses to an Israeli reporter after Francis asked the same reporter, "How can I help?" back on 13 June 2013.   Quotes are from the America Magazine, When Pope Francis asked an Israeli Reporter, "How Can I Help?", by Gerard O'Connell.  Reflect on these two statements in light of the blasphemies recently exposed, on Call Me Jorge..., against Our Lord by the Jews and Jorge Bergoglio (aka Francis).

the true face of Talmudism shows itself

(This rabbi like Suor Cristina is giving the devil horns.)

Maurice Pinay's Blog has done it again with another excellent post about the 'welcoming party' of youths who follow the teachings of the orthodox rabbis & the Talmud.  Below is a scan of a pamphlet these youths were passing out.  In recent days they have also hung anti-Catholic banners, sprayed 'price-tag' graffiti on Churches, and damaged Christian properties.  We expect Francis to remain silent on these matters and instead mouth a pithy platitude similar to the late Rodney King's, "Can we all get along" while he holds hands with the perfidious Rabbi Skorka and the heretical Iman Abboud.  Interestingly, in a state filled with terrorism which detains Moslems and Christians without formally charging them, these Judaic youths are let off.  Arutz Sheva 7 has an article, Court Rejects Police 'Restraining Order' to Stop Pope Protests, explaining all this.  We guess some people in Israel are more equal than others.  One other thing to point out is the name which the pamphlet uses to refer to Jesus the Christ.  It is the same rabbinical acronym we wrote of earlier in, update on the White Crucifixion, which is simply "YESHU = May his name and his memory be wiped out."  Remember Francis believes everyone prays to the same God regardless of their religion & these Judaic criminals are God's chosen people who have a covenant with God which is still valid.  Please take the time to read Maurice Pinay's most important post.

• Orthodox Judaic 'youths' anti-Christ pamphlet rife with teachings of Orthodox Judaism well known to Novus Ordo Popes

Read the pamphlet the Judaic youths were passing out to see the real face of the Talmudic religion and not the censored false 'we are the eternal victims' version shoved down the world's throats by the media!

Related :

• An apostate says what 

• update on the White Crucifixion

 

Anti-Christian graffiti reads, “Price tag, David (is) the king, Jesus (is) Junk for the Jews” 

It was spray painted recently on the Romanian Church in Jerusalem.

An apostate says what

 "The majority of us know how to coexist, it's easier for us, 

and that's a clear message. It's a message that we have 

the same Father, up in Heaven, and the same 

Father down on earth, we adore him.”

 - Francis -

(Does the Popemobile have this bumper sticker?)

"What you have done, visiting these towns, the synagogues, 

mosques and Christian churches, is an act of brotherhood 

and a seed. A seed to build that culture of encounter 

that we all have to carry forward.”

 - Francis -

 (Video with the above quotes of Francis to traveling delegation.)

Francis said those statements just 85 days ago on Friday 28 February 2014 when he met with the 15 Muslims, 15 Jews, and 15 Christians in the Vatican returning from their recent trip to Israel.  Is Francis telling the truth?  We think he is.  The Modernists who follow the Novus Ordo church & the ambiguous teachings of  Vatican II do follow and pray to the same being as the perfidious Jews and the heretical Muslims do.  

(Francis praying to G-d & Allah the gods of the Jews & Muslims.)

Do Muslims and Jews acknowledge Jesus the Christ as the Messiah?  Of course they do not for if they did they would be Catholics instead.  

"Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denieth the Father, and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that confesseth the Son, hath the Father also." 

- 1st Epistle Of Saint John 2:22-23 -

"And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world." 

- 1st Epistle Of Saint John 4:3 -

(A Jew praying to the same G-d as Francis.)

Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a time with you; and have you not known me? Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also. How sayest thou, shew us the Father?  Do you not believe, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?  The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works. Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? Otherwise believe for the very works' sake. Amen, amen I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and greater than these shall he do.  Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do. 

- Gospel According to Saint John 14:9-15 -

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

- Gospel According to Saint John 8:44 -

(Muslims praying to the same Allah as Francis.)

"You Mohammedans are in a state of everlasting damnation. Your Koran is not God's law nor is it revealed by Him. Far from being a good thing, your law is utterly evil. It is founded neither in the Old Testament nor in the New. In it are lies, foolish things, buffooneries, contradictions, and much that leads not to virtue and goodness but to evil and to all manner of vice." 

- Blessed Nicholas Tavilich -

"But the holy monk having declared that Mahomet was a disciple of the devil, and that his followers were in a state of perdition, he also was condemned (to martyrdom) with his companions." 

- St. Alphonsus de Liguori on the Holy Monk St. Goerge of San Saba -

"...we have the same Father,"

- Francis -

(What COEXIST symbols represent.)

"There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition" 

- Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Satis Cognitum  -

Pope Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors condemned the following false notions:

15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true. -- Allocution "Maxima quidem," June 9, 1862; Damnatio "Multiplices inter," June 10, 1851. 

16. Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation. -- Encyclical "Qui pluribus," Nov. 9, 1846.

"Who is to be called a Christian? He who confesses the doctrine of Christ and His Church. Hence, he is truly a Christian thoroughly condemns and detests, the Jewish, Mohammedan, and the heretical cults and sects." 

- St. Peter Canisius -

"Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me. If you had known me, you would without doubt have known my Father also: and from henceforth you shall know him, and you have seen him." 

- Gospel According to Saint John 14:6-7 -

the 'elder' brother's ❤ of Catholicism

Maurice Pinay over at the Maurice Pinay Blog has a two important posts today concerning the direction the Novus Ordo faith is proceeding and which also question, why the silence from almost all circles on the attacks of the Catholic religion from the so-called Elder Brothers. To answer for our lack of 'highlighting' these price tagging crimes, it comes down to time & difficulty in finding photos & videos.

• What we can glean from Cardinal Koch's preview of Pope Francis' pilgrimage to Counterfeit Israel

• You cannot exaggerate the importance of Pope Francis' damage control mission to Counterfeit Israel

   

(Benedict XVI, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, & Cardinal Koch.)

Jorge's priests learn about their Jewish roots

*** UPDATED at  9:28PM 5/16/14 with new link at bottom of entry ***

While he was the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge had some of his priests go on a seven day trip to Israel from 23-29 February 2012.  While there, they visited places sacred to the Catholic and Jewish religions, got in touch with their Jewish roots, visited Yad Vashem (holocaust memorial), went to Mount Herzl, attended lectures on the holocaust at a Chabad 'Noahide' Center, and participated in Shabbat observances.  Sadly, the Congreso Judio website which had two articles on this topic has been revamped and the webmaster didn't archive the old articles about this trip.  We included these dead links in case one of our readers has saved the articles and might be able to post them in the comments below.

Jovens junto ao Cardeal Bergoglio
http://congresojudio.org.ar/nota.php?np=1335

Sacerdotes Jovens em Israel
http://congresojudio.org.ar/nota.php?np=1330

For our Spanish language readers, Zenit wrote of this trip in the article, Una nueva era en las relaciones judeocatólicas.  Reprinted below is the much better English language article from the Jerusalem Post, Priestly blessings.

Priestly blessings 

03/10/2012 19:13 By DEBORAH DANAN

Latin American Catholics and Jews share a trip to 

the Holy Land to bridge gaps.

Let’s face it. Jews and Christians haven’t exactly been the best of friends over the centuries, what with a long history of blood libels, inquisitions, crusades and the like – not to mention the small question of whether the Jews killed Jesus. Yet, during the past century there was a gradual shift toward improving Jewish- Christian relations, which culminated in the 1960s with the Second Vatican Council. Commonly known as Vatican II, the council addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world.

Perhaps the most revolutionary change to emerge from the council – at least with regard to Jewish-Catholic relations – was the Nostra Aetate (Latin for “In our Age”) document, which, apart from decrying anti-Semitism in any form, further declared that the blame for Jesus’s death cannot be pinned on Jews – either from the time of his death or present-day Jews.

This paved the way for a new trend of reconciliation between Jews and Christians – one that has since been cultivated into a mutually beneficial relationship of brotherhood. The highlight of the changing relationship came in the year 2000, when on a visit to Israel pope John Paul II inserted the following words into the cracks of the Western Wall: “God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: we are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer and, asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.”

Today, there are dozens of centers in the US for Jewish-Christian understanding and the Roman Catholic Church actively seeks ways to correctly present Jews and Judaism within its catechesis.

Yet despite the fact that 45 percent of the world’s Catholics live in Latin America, that region seems to have fallen behind its European and North American counterparts and is still plagued by rampant anti-Semitism that finds its roots in old biases against the alleged deicide at the hands of the Jews.

But last week’s tour of Israel, attended by a group of Latin American Catholic priests and their Jewish peers, indicates that the winds are changing in that part of the world too.

Three partnering organizations worked in tandem to turn this unprecedented initiative into a reality: The World Jewish Diplomatic Corps (WJDC), the Center for Jewish- Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) and the Latin American Jewish Congress (LAJC). The organizers view the trip not as an end in itself, but rather as the beginning of a long-term and positive relationship between the Jewish and Christian communities of Latin America, communities that in the past have either been strangers – or worse, estranged – from one another.

The eight priests who came on the week-long trip were selected by the local archbishops of São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Bogota – cities that all have Jewish communities – to ensure that the mission of continued dialogue in the future can also be realized.

One quality the priests share is the fact that they are all young and – for want of a more appropriate word – hip.

The same goes for the two Latin American Jewish leaders – a rabbi and a teacher – who accompanied the priests on the tour.

One vivacious priest, Father Pedro Pereira, speaks of the reaction of local Nazareth residents who witnessed the procession of clergymen visiting their town.

“They saw us together – priests in full garb, collar and all – walking side by side with rabbis with big kippot on their heads. They couldn’t understand what on earth was going on!” Pereira’s answer to how it felt visiting Israel’s Christian holy sites for the first time in his life is rather astonishing.

“I’m not the kind of priest that is much into pilgrimages. What changed me personally was seeing the Jewish holy sites and feeling the heart of Israelis and the Jewish people.”

Regarding the group’s visit to Yad Vashem, Pereira says, “Since my mother died, not a single tear has rolled down my face. But being in the children’s memorial [in Yad Vashem] changed that. It was a very intense moment. I felt shame. Shame on me as a human being. How can humans have done such a thing? It made me think about my own actions and their consequences.”

But perhaps the most remarkable sentiment is the priests’ attitude towards the Jewish Temple.

“As a Catholic, I can feel the presence of the Lord whenever I pray Mass – through the Eucharist,” says Pereira, “I also felt the presence of the Lord by the [Western] Wall. Yet at the same time, something was missing. I actually missed the presence of the Temple. I put myself in your place and truly empathized – it hurt my heart and I felt sorry for you guys that you no longer have your Temple.”

Father Nicolas Garcon, who has 40,000 people in his parish in Bogota, Colombia, takes Pereira’s thought one step further.

“I feel pain that the Temple is gone, but not just for the Jewish people – for me also. Just as Jesus cried for Jerusalem, the Jews cry for Jerusalem today.”

And referring to the immigration of Diaspora Jews to Israel, Garcon says, “I feel so good when I hear that Jews are returning to Jerusalem to rebuild it.

Since I was a child seeing pictures of hassidic Jews, I always felt that Jews were so far, far away from me – both in distance and in time. But being here has made me realize that the Torah is not just an old book, it’s a reality that Jews in this land are living out.”

FOR FATHER Alejandro Velasquez, also from Colombia, coming to Israel has meant shattering many of the stereotypes and legends about Jews that he had heard growing up.

“We hear a lot of negative things about Jews, for example in my country The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is accepted as being genuine and there are also conspiracy theories about Jewish links to Freemasonry. My being here has allowed me to openly ask the question of why there has been so much hatred directed at Jews throughout history. But people are afraid of Jews because they don’t know them.”

He adds that prior to coming here, some cynics tried to convince him that the trip was nothing more than “Jewish propaganda.” So what was the intended nature of the trip? Was it primarily to serve a spiritual function, or was it rather geared toward political or diplomatic ends? According to Jay Shultz, a Jewish Diplomat on behalf of the World Jewish Diplomatic Corps, the two issues should never be separated.

“Yes, there are indeed deep-rooted spiritual implications from this trip.

Seeing their Jewish roots firsthand, it became relevant for [the priests’] own spirituality, in order to elucidate their own faith. Being here has also allowed them to grasp the religious connection between Christianity and Judaism through the latter’s ongoing connection to the Land of Israel. For example, visiting the City of David as the place where King David composed psalms is amazing. But what makes it that much more tangible and relevant is actually seeing Jews living there today.”

As for Shultz’s own reasons for organizing the initiative, he says, “I do this all as a noble honor, without getting paid, because I believe that strategically working with the 1.3 billionperson Catholic world will very clearly make Israel, and all Jews around the world, safer and stronger... I want to do my all to take care of my family.”

For their own part, the priests all agree that after coming here, Israel turned from a spiritual idea rooted in the past to a physical and geographical reality that is in the living present and collective future of both Jews and Christians alike.

The trip’s itinerary included a twoday seminar at the Center for Jewish- Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Efrat, headed by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin. Three Orthodox rabbis and two Catholic theologians led panels on various issues within the Christian-Jewish dialogue. Rabbi Eugene Korn, the American director of the CJCUC, posits that thankfully today the relationship between Christians and Jews is steadily transitioning from being mere “dialogue” toward real friendship.

“There is a need for Catholics to understand how Jews see themselves and just how important Israel is for the Jewish people and the religion. Our religious objective was designed to change perceptions and to eliminate hatred, prejudice and religious extremism.

We [Jews] see everyone as enemies because we’re trapped in the past. Our challenge now is not to remain stuck on what our grandparents said, but rather to invest in what our grandchildren will say. Jews need to understand that today the Roman Catholic Church is a good friend of the Jewish people.”

But for Rabbi Gilberto Ventura, a teacher in a Jewish school in São Paulo, the initiative extends further than cultivating religious ties between clergymen of differing faiths. It is also about nurturing a culture of peace and showing that not all Jews are cut from the same cloth.

“In Brazil,” avers Ventura, “they look at the Jewish community as being disconnected from the population at large – perhaps because they think all Jews are rich.”

For him, the trip to Israel was vital in bridging cultural gaps as well as religious ones, and also in showing that every Jew is different from the next.

Ventura comments on the priests’ surprise that Jews can come from such wildly different socio-economic and religious backgrounds, and indeed, that they also come in different colors.

And nothing drove this message home more than the priests’ Shabbat experience in Jerusalem.

Hosted by religious Jewish families for a traditional Friday night meal, the priests were able to become acquainted with Judaism on a more intimate level.

Since family is such an integral part of the Latin American landscape, Father Velasquez notes for him this was the highlight of the trip.

“There was wine of course, and once we drank, the ice was broken and we talked about religious issues. The intellectual level of everyone at the table was very high.”

Father Velasquez also admits to the faux pas of extending his hand in greeting to his Orthodox female host, who did not take it in return. He grins sheepishly, “I was so embarrassed.” No doubt that was a lesson in Jewish religious practices that Father Velasquez won’t forget in a hurry.

Indeed, when this writer came to meet with the group, no hands were proffered, at the priests’ own initiative.

But perhaps the incident symbolizes just how much attitudes have changed since the days when pope Pius X expressed his proselytizing intentions in a letter to Theodor Herzl thus: “We are unable to favor [the Zionist] movement.

We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem, but we could never sanction it.... If you come to Palestine and settle your people there, we will be ready with our churches and priests to baptize all of you.”

Rabbi Pablo Gabe, the rabbi of Kehilat Amihai in Buenos Aires, sums it up as follows: “People think our goal is to build some sort of new religion.

But that isn’t so. They have to continue being Catholics just as we need to continue being Jews. We need to walk together in between our differences, not by pushing those differences out of the way.”

When he returns to Buenos Aires, Rabbi Gabe intends to invite Father Pereira and other Catholics from within his community to Shabbat meals in his home.

Father Pereira, the priest with the mischievous, brace-enhanced smile, adds a final observation.

“The Church works towards justice, truth and peace, and together we must walk with Jews in this direction. But it’s not only an issue between religions – it is also between human brothers who share the revelation of God in making the world a better place. I have no doubt that being [in Israel] on this trip is the will of God.”  

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Remember this guy?

Since Bp. Fellay and the FSSPX are in the news recently for a visit to the Vatican, sometime in the last six months which may or may not have happened, we thought it appropriate to bring up a behind-the-scenes representative of the money powers who seems to have fallen through the cracks.  Where has Max gone?   The blogosphere and forums have gone quiet with nary a word from Max or his self-named 'stalkers'.  Is he OK?  Is he still a Zionist?  Does he still work for the FSSPX?  We are worried.  For those readers who are not familiar with Herr Dr. Krah a little refresher and some pictures below.  For those readers that are familiar please bear with us.  Maximilian Krah is a lawyer extraordinaire and serves on several Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X (FSSPX) corporations as well as being a trustee for the Jaidhof Foundation.  A big tip of the hat to Heime H. for sending us the pictures!

(Training with Israeli special forces.)

(On Merkava I tank at best buddy's wedding festivities.) 

(Sukkot in the Holy Land 2011.)

(In school with Oren Heiman.)

We cannot understand why Maximilian doesn't like Francis.  They seem to have so many things in common.  Both,

 ✔ Love usury
 ✔ Love Israel
 ✔ Love Novus Ordo
 ✔ Love selfies
 ✔ Love German automobiles
 ✔ Love German schools
 ✔ Love lewd music
 ✔ Love traditional vestments

Oh, it's that thing about vestments that keeps the two apart.  Maybe Krah read on the BBC website,

Minutes after the election result was declared in the Sistine Chapel, a Vatican official called the Master of Ceremonies offered to the new Pope the traditional papal red cape trimmed with ermine that his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI gladly wore on ceremonial occasions.

"No thank you, Monsignore," Pope Francis is reported to have replied. "You put it on instead. Carnival time is over!"

It was just one small sign out of many this week that as Massimo Franco, one of Italy's shrewdest political editorial writers, commented in the Corriere Della Sera, "the era of the Pope-King and of the Vatican court is over".

and took the statement to heart?  Guess he didn't he read Andrea Tornielli's article, Bergoglio, Ratzinger and urban myths to find out that this obstacle really isn't one.  It is sad that a small misunderstanding about vestments is keeping these two peas in a pod apart. 

(Uh oh, someone doesn't like Francis.)

The FSSPX's de facto position is they are the only alternative to Francis as the Vatican has strayed from the Faith.  As Krah sees himself as loyal to the Church's doctrine and liturgy and is a mover & shaker in FSSPX circles, we at Call Me Jorge... will be keeping our eyes on him!

Rabbi Buchwald on Francis

a historic victory

Yet another article from the Israeli / Talmudic media on how great the double canonizations are for their Christ-denying religion.  Anshel Pfeffer writing, Double canonization is a historic victory for the Jewish people, for Haaretz, let a few cats out of the bag but not all.  We hope later this week to post about this Christ-denying group and their place of honor at the canonizations of John XXIII & John Paul II.

Double canonization is a historic victory 

for the Jewish people

Never has a religion so comprehensively changed its attitude to what was once seen as its worst enemy as the Roman Catholic Church did under popes John XXIII and John Paul II.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Apr. 27, 2014 | 4:26 PM |

The business of manufacturing new saints going on today in Rome is mysterious to non-Catholics, even risible for atheists. The canonization of Angello Giuseppe Roncalli and Karol Jozef Woytyla, better known as popes John XXIII and John Paul II, with all its attendant process of discovering modern-day miracles, recognizing their elevated position in heaven and subsequent veneration, represent to many of us much of what is fake and artificial about modern religion. Even many Catholics tend to look at this from a cynical perspective; seasoned Vatican-observers noting how Pope Francis has pulled off a canny "balancing act" canonizing in one go a liberal pope (J23) with a conservative one (JP2). And there are the critics who accuse the new pope of wasting too much time on heavenly pageantry rather than dealing with the very real problems still facing a church struggling to acclimatize itself to the 21st century.

All these observations are valid but essentially meaningless. Creating myths of holiness and sainthood is what established religions do and the Roman Catholic Church, which even in its diminished state is still the biggest and most influential of the lot with all the historical baggage it carries, is in desperate need of new saints. John Paul II was one of a small group of individuals who influenced the last decades of the previous century and the end of the Cold War; Francis has the potential to have a similar effect on the next period in history. Over half a million people gathered this morning in St Peter's Square to hear Francis proclaim "we declare and define Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II to be saints and we enroll them among the saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated as such by the whole church." Countless millions were watching live on television around the world. Even if that means nothing to you and me, it still means something to a hell of a lot of people.

And while it wasn't specifically scheduled to coincide with the eve of Yom Hashoah, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, it has a particular historical resonance for Jews everywhere since no two men did more than Roncalli and Wojtyla to reverse all those centuries of often murderous enmity of the church towards the Jewish people.

True, the double canonization today is more about internal-Vatican politics and the Papacy's need to create heroes and role-models for its adherents than inter-religious relations, but put in a historical context, it is a victory for the Jews.

John XXIII in less than five years on the throne expunged anti-Semitic references from the liturgy (one of his first decisions) and convened the Second Vatican Council, at the start of which he commissioned the writing of the Nostra Aetate, the most important declaration to come from Vatican II which resolutely proclaimed that the Jews were in no way to be seen as responsible for Jesus' death. Though the Nostra Aetate was issued after his death, John was the man who through one document swept away the theological basis for nearly two thousand years of persecution.

And while John Paul II has been accused by the more liberal elements in the church of reversing in some ways the Vatican II reforms, as far as regards the church's relationship with the Jews he took matters to another level altogether. In constant cooperation with often suspicious Jewish leaders, in being the first modern pope to visit a synagogue in Rome, in referring to the Jews as "our beloved elder brothers," authorizing full diplomatic ties with Israel and in his visit to Jerusalem, apologizing at the Western Wall for the suffering the church and its members had inflicted upon Jews.

The church that Jorge Mario Bergoglio grew up in as a young man and priest in Argentina was certainly not free of anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, but it was by then a church where a man of his nature could preach against hatred with the knowledge that he had the backing of the two most important popes of his lifetime. Today, as Pope Francis, he continues their legacy.

Another pope goes unmentioned today. The wartime record of Pius XII will continue to be debated for decades to come and despite the fact that many Jewish historians have exonerated him, even credited him with saving Jews in the Holocaust. And, of course, the current pope, like his predecessors, continue to honor his memory, but he will forever be remembered as the "Silent Pope." The Jews of Rome will never forgive what they see as his inaction over the deportation of thousands to the death camps from "his" city. The fact that the canonization of the younger popes John XXIII and John Paul has gone ahead so swiftly while that of Pius XII has been delayed again and again will not be lost. Unlike Eugenio Pacelli who hardly covered himself in glory during those dark years, his two successors were actively helping Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. Wojtyla even took the risk as a young priest to overrule a Christian couple who wanted to bring up a Jewish orphan they had sheltered as a Catholic.

Whatever they really think of Pius XII, it's clear that today's Curia is very aware of the affront his canonization would be to many Jews and are extremely reluctant to jeopardize the massive improvement in the relationship achieved since the days of John XXIII.

The theological change wrought in just fifty years by a series of popes (including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI despite his PR failings) is without precedent in its speed and significance in theological history. Never has a religion so comprehensively changed its attitude to what was once seen as its worst enemy. It is due first of all to the success of countless generations of Jews to retain their faith and flourish despite the church-inspired and church-sponsored blood libels, forced conversions and pogroms, but also to these two extraordinary men being honored today in Rome. The canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II is a day of rejoice for Catholics and a historical victory for the Jewish people.

John XXIII & John Paul II are saintly to who?

(One wonders what they are patron saints of?)

 

Celebrating the newest Roman Catholic Saints
by Michael Berenbaum
(click here to read original article)

Ordinarily, Jews have little interest in whom the Roman Catholic Church canonizes as saints. Yet, on the Sunday after Easter, the day that coincides with Yom Ha-Shoah, the 27th of Nisan, two men, Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, will be elevated to sainthood, and both of them bear notice.

There is a paradox relating to the Holocaust that was first observed by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg: The innocent feel guilty, and the guilty feel innocent.

The greatest strides in Catholic-Jewish relations in the entire two millennia of that relationship were made at the initiative of these two popes, who were innocent during the Shoah and yet who felt responsibility for the Holocaust.

A word about Pope John XXIII: While serving as papal nuncio, a diplomatic post, in Istanbul, and known at the time as Archbishop Roncalli, he worked with the delegates of the Yishuv, the Jewish leadership in Palestine — pre-state Israel — to warn Hungarian Jews and to rescue those who could be rescued. He established direct communication with the Yishuv’s formal leaders in Turkey and even met with clandestine operatives. He did not, as was widely rumored, offer false baptismal certificates, but rather did something a bit more clever — he wrote letters indicating that the holder of the letter was a “co-religionist and fellow countryman of Jesus” and “should be entitled to Vatican protection.” Notice the language — “co-religionist and fellow countryman” is a reference to Jews. “Should be entitled to Vatican protection” does not mean that the holder is entitled to Vatican protection. It suggests a tone of aspiration rather than actual fact. He wrote to leaders in Bulgaria, where he had previously served, urging them to protect their Jews and directly to King Boris III, asking him not to deport Bulgarian Jews.

Elected as an interim, caretaker pope after the long pontificate of Pope Pius XII, Pope John XXIII met with the French historian Jules Isaac and studied the history of anti-Semitism. He then took the bold initiative of calling the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 (commonly known as Vatican II), bringing about, among its important initiatives, Nostra Aetate, which used the tools of Catholicism to revamp the Church’s teaching on the Jews. The Church then institutionalized that transformation by changing the Good Friday liturgy, as well as its scriptural reading.

In essence, Vatican II taught what critical historical scholarship had established long ago — that Jews were not responsible for the Crucifixion of Christ, but, rather, the human propensity to sin was. If, as Christians believe, Christ died for our sins, if his death was a sacrificial atonement, then without human sin, there would be no need for such atonement. Furthermore, Good Friday liturgy eliminated the reference to perfidious Jews and the reading of Matthew 27, in which Jews are depicted as having accepted responsibility on themselves and their children for the Crucifixion.

Teaching was combined with gesture, doctrine with human contact. Pope John XXIII stopped at the Great Synagogue of Rome and greeted its worshipers leaving Sabbath prayers, wishing them a “good Shabbat.” It was an unprecedented step for the bishop of Rome, the heir of St. Peter, to visit the Jews of Rome. It had simply never been done before. 

Thus, Pope John XXIII came to terms with 1,878 years of Jewish life — following the destruction of the Second Temple until the birth of Israel.

Enter Pope John Paul II, who took the transformations initiated by Pope John XXIII, and sustained by Paul VI, another series of steps further.

A word of biography is in order. John Paul II is probably the first pope who could truthfully say, “Some of my best friends are Jewish,” and mean it literally. Prior to becoming a priest, he was in direct contact with Jews; he knew them from the soccer fields, where he often played on the Jewish side when they were short a player, as well as while a university student and from the theater; one local Jew was among his closest friends and remained a friend throughout the pontiff’s long life. His friend even took an apartment in Rome to be near the pope, once he was elected.

Yaffa Eliach documented in legendary form that while still a parish priest, Karol Józef Wojtyła refused to baptize Jewish children who had been saved by Roman Catholic Polish families when their parents were deported, unless the children were informed that their biological parents had been Jews. This was an act of singular integrity and, in fact, it was not quite in keeping with the instructions of the postwar Church that was interested in saving the souls of all people — including, perhaps even especially, Jewish children. It was also an act of courage, as his parishioners must have felt the conversation burdensome.

Allow me to explain.

If you trusted a neighbor and your child had a certain type of appearance, meaning that they did not look “too Jewish” and they were preverbal, Jewish parents about to be deported might ask a Polish family to take care of their child. The child could not be told that they were Jewish at the time, as the information, if repeated, would be lethal to the child and also to the family that was sheltering him. When and if the parents returned, the child might not remember them or even recognize them. Often the child had been treated with love, and responded in kind, embracing his or her adoptive parents, the only parents he or she had known, and feeling the biological parents to be strangers who had abandoned him or her. So even when the parents survived, the child often wanted to stay put. If the parents or a parent did not return after the war, it became dangerous to reveal to a child that they were Jewish, as this could lead to the surrogate parents being labeled as “Jew lovers” and to their ostracism. So such information was not easily revealed to a child, but Wojtyła insisted.

As pope, John Paul II visited the Roman synagogue and worshipped with the Jewish community. He treated the synagogue as a house of God, with all the respect due to such standing, and he treated the chief rabbi of Rome as a fellow religious leader. He established diplomatic relations with Israel and traveled there in 2000, visiting both Yad Vashem and the Western Wall. At Yad Vashem, he apologized for the anti-Semitism of Christians — not of Christianity — and made the all-important statement that anti-Semitism is anti-Christian. A man of the theater, he understood well that the media is the message, and that his words would echo throughout the Christian world.

Although he did not say everything I would have liked him to have, what he did say was all-important, and the place from which he uttered these statements was even more symbolic. By visiting the Western Wall, the holiest site of Judaism, Pope John Paul II recognized the form that Judaism took after the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70 C.E. He placed a prayer into the Wall, as is the custom of the devout. His visit to the office of the chief rabbinate, certainly not the most ecumenical of religious offices in the world, was also compelling. Prepared by Jewish history and memory, the rabbis expected polemics, great medieval disputations. Instead he greeted them as one religious leader to another. The rabbis were shocked at how moved they were by the pope’s visit.

Not all problems were solved, not all issues were settled, but the result was tremendous progress and unprecedented warmth in Jewish-Roman Catholic relations.

It is worth noting, as well, who was not elevated to sainthood this Yom HaShoah: Pope Pius XII, the wartime pontiff whose record during the Holocaust is, to say the least, controversial. Pope Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict, admired Pius XII for his piety and asceticism, and prior to stepping down had been moving along his candidacy for sainthood.

There is another reason to celebrate Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. I believe that the most urgent issue in interreligious life today is whether we can find within our religious traditions a way to accept the other, rather than to demonize the other. Can we use the tools of our own tradition to move beyond the notion of tolerance into acceptance of an underlying religious embrace of the other? Or must we resort to those parts of our tradition — each of our traditions, Jewish, Christian and Muslim — that demonize the other, that deny the other, that cannot recognize in the other one of God’s creation. I know of no issue more central to the world today, no other issue that could so likely determine our collective future, and I know of no religious leaders who have done more to show us the way than the two men who will be canonized as saints in the Roman Catholic tradition, Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II.

We should note, as well, that Pope Francis has made yet another profound gesture by elevating these men. To me, their deeds were saintly.

(Both John XXIII & John Paul II were lauded by the secular world.)

(Now that they have Vatican stamps, it must be official right?)

(John XXIII with Shinto priest at the Vatican.)

(John Paul II in the Great Synagogue of Rome.)