Benedict XVI greets Jews and announces visit to Rome synagogue
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Pope Benedict XVI

Rome, Italy, Sep 18, 2009 / 05:06 pm (CNA).- In a telegram sent on the occasion of the Jewish feasts of Yom Kippur and Sukkot, Pope Benedict XVI prayed that God would bestow “copious blessings upon all the Jews and constant encouragement in the struggle to promote justice, harmony and peace.” He also announced that in the coming months he would visit the synagogue of Rome.
 
According to L’Osservatore Romano, the Holy Father offered Rabbi Ricardo Segni of Rome his best wishes that the Jewish feasts “would be a reason for mutual and holy joy” and he renewed his “cordial friendship” with the rabbi.
 
The Pope said he also hopes to visit the synagogue of Rome after the Jewish feasts have ended, out of a desire “to express to you my personal closeness and that of all of the Catholic Church.”
 
Rabbi Segni expressed thanks for the gesture and the news of the visit, which would come 23 years after the historic visit of Pope John Paul II on April 13, 1986.
 
This would be the third synagogue visited by Benedict XVI.  In 2005 he visited a synagogue in Cologne and one during his 2008 visit to New York.

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Published by: Adoremus
Sweden 10/08/2009 10:35 AM EST
JMJ Well said Christian. This Fr. Ratzinger might be a jewish or a muslim pope, but he is certainly not Catholic!
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Published by: Christian
Frankfort/KY/USA 09/22/2009 01:23 PM EST
"If any ecclesiastic or layman shall go into the synagogue of the Jews or to the meeting-houses of the heretics to join in prayer with them, let them be deposed and deprived of communion If any Bishops or Priest or Deacon shall join in prayer with heretics, let him be suspended from Communion" - III Council of Constantinople. "How does a Catholic sin against faith? A Catholic sins against Faith by Apostasy, heresy, indifferentism and by taking part in non-Catholic worship." (Catechism of the Council of Trent, Catechism of Pope St. Pius X, and The Baltimore Catechism). O Lord, grant us a true Catholic Pope!
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Published by: Marty
Scotland 09/21/2009 02:13 PM EST
These visits of modern Popes to Synagogues, their refusal to preach Christ to the Jews, but instead speak of a common brotherhood in Abraham, is at least implicit heresy. God does not bestow "copious blessings" upon those who reject His Divine Son. I'll never understand how any Vicar of Christ can think otherwise. The Jews, like the adherents of all non-Christian religions, barring invincible ignorance, will not be saved. As St. Paul says in relation to Jesus, Our Lord: "There is no other name given to men by which they may be saved." I was also scandalised by the Pope's reference to some imagined Jewish struggle to promote "justice, harmony and peace." This is not the struggle I see when I view the state of affairs in the Holy Land. At any rate, the Pope should know that only Christ the King can establish true and lasting justice, harmony and peace amongst men. Where He is absent, so too are these blessings. I'm ashamed of the behaviour of these ecumenical Popes. They contradcit the Church's teaching through the ages in respect to non-Catholics. No wonder the Church of Vatican II is in crisis.
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Published by: Francis
Wareham, MA 09/19/2009 10:33 AM EST
What is the point of these visits to these non Catholic "temples"? Surely it isn't to preach the Gospel and to convert the Jews to Christ and to his Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation! No Reigning Pope until John Paul the II and now Pope Benedict have visited these places, and for good reason, by doing so it "legitimizes" these "holy places" and implies that these false religions are sufficient for Salvation; which of course they are not. This false ecumenism is a made up novelty of Vatican II and the sooner it is put to rest the sooner the Catholic Church can go back to its primary mission which was commanded by our Lord: 15 And he said to them: "Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall he condemned". Mark 16:15-16
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Published by: Craig McNeal
Shirley/MA/USA 09/19/2009 06:37 AM EST
Copius Blessings, for what? To stay in their blindness and reject Christ. If they are still the chosen people of God and wait for a messiah not in vain then what in heck do we believe in. Does this not make Christ and his Church just another pagan religion that accepts someone no better than Mohamed. Am I incorrect in bringing this to its logical conclusion that all men that claim the name of Christian need to reject their false belief in Christ and accept the true religion of the Jews and look for the true messiah if they still have a covenant with God and legitimately wait for the messiah? Come on people wake up, this Pope and all the popes of this false vatican II religion are manifest heretics.
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