Pope preacher compares abuse row to anti-Semitism (extract)
BBC, Apr 2 2010
Pope Benedict’s personal preacher, Rev Cantalamessa, said in a sermon at Good Friday prayers in St Peter’s Basilica, attended by the Pope, that Jews throughout history had been the victims of “collective violence”, and drew a comparison with recent attacks on the Church. He read the congregation part of a letter from a Jewish friend. He quoted from the letter:
I am following with disgust the violent and concentric attacks against the Church, the Pope … the use of stereotypes, the shifting of personal responsibility and guilt to a collective guilt remind me of the most shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.
LOL.
Talk about Catholics in panic-mode!
The result of this has been a flurry of Zionist Jews defending Israel’s moral low-ground.
And quite rightly so.
There’s simply no comparison between Catholic kiddy-diddling and Jews killing and maiming the children of Palestinians from whom they’ve been stealing land and livelihoods, and imposing squalor upon, for more than 6 decades.
Trying to hijack The Slur for existential purposes is neither catholic nor Catholic.
…well, it wasn’t until 2010, at least.
There are various jewish groups calling bullshit on this in today’s news, but I can’t be bothered to report them.
I think it’s a good start though, as soon as the commonest petty criminal starts using the anti-semite card as a defense, we’ll all be better off.