PopeWatch finds this a pleasant surprise:
God promised the Holy Land to the people of Israel, Pope Francis said during a public address at the Vatican in Rome on Wednesday in a speech about migration.
“The people of Israel, who from Egypt, where they were enslaved, walked through the desert for forty years until they reached the land promised by God,” he said.
Pope Francis spoke just before granting a brief audience to Israeli Deputy Minister for Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara to thank him for his efforts on behalf of the Church and Christians in Israel.
Kara told reporters he felt that the pontiff was sending a direct message to UNESCO, whose World Heritage Committee approved a resolution that ignored Jewish ties to the Temple Mount.
Go here to read the rest. The God who marks the sparrow’s fall will never forget the people of His Mother.
“The God who marks the sparrow’s fall will never forget the people of His Mother.”
I have long noticed with concern the rise of anti-Semitism, thinly disguised as anti-Zionism, among young Catholics, especially in France; particularly those who support the anti-capitalist and anti-globalization agenda and who claim to be passionate opponents of racism.
Pierre-Andre Taguieff described it very well: This movement “draws nourishment from a myth and feeds it in return.” The myth “is constructed on the demonized figure of ‘Jews-Israelis-Zionists’ supported by the ‘Americans’ and in opposition to that, no less mythical, of the Palestinian Arab ‘innocent victims.’“ On one side, Taguieff continues, stands the “cosmopolitan Satan,” the unholy trinity ‘United States/Israel/The West.’ On the other side stands the “dominated and the oppressed.” Thus the new judeophobia recycles old stereotypes such as the rich Jew and the dominating Jew under the “varnish of progressivism.” The Jew is once more the stand-in for capitalism, imperialism, cosmopolitanism, indeed the whole economic order.
Alain Finkielkraut has also pointed out that traditionally anti-Semites were nationalists: “the French who worship a cult of their identity and who love each other in opposition to Jews.” “Contemporary anti-Semitism,” however, is the domain of the French who “do not love each other, who think in terms of a post-national future, who rid themselves of their Frenchness to better identify with the poor of the Earth, and who, through Israel, group Jews in the camp of the oppressors.”
I fancy that, following the Cold War, the Palestinians have replaced the proletariat as the pure, ideal alternative to Western capitalism in many young people’s imaginations.
Romans 11 says that God has NOT cast away His chosen people, and we who are Gentiles grafted into the Tree can be cut away as easily as we were grafted in, and if we coontinue in our heresy and apostasy, that is exactly what will happen.
God gave Abraham the Faith in the Holy Trinity, The Israelites carry the Faith of a Triune God. The Israelites await the coming of the Messiah. The Jews are truly our “older brothers” as St. John Paul II has said. No other nation was gifted or deserving of the true Faith, Human sacrifice, infanticide to the demon god Molech, was widely practiced and God instructed the Israelites to drive them out of the land. The journey from Egypt to the Promised Land takes two weeks. The generations who left Egypt had to wander in the desert for forty years until only their innocent offspring were allowed to enter into the Promised Land.
The anti-semitism among our young millenials is probably rooted in knowing that they will be driven from the Promised Land for aborting the innocent Children of God.
I have long noticed with concern the rise of anti-Semitism, thinly disguised as anti-Zionism, among young Catholics, especially in France;
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While you’re at it, you might notice that it’s bog standard among the university educated chatterati in your own country. In point of fact, hostility to Israel is omnipresent in the occident, with the partial exception of the United States and Canada. It’s the norm even in ordinarily sensible countries like Australia.
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In this country, you see some of it among Latin-Mass traditionalists, but that’s a very small segment. Where you see it in all denominations is in the church-o-cracy and among the people who fancy themselves intellectual descendants of Dorothy Day. Outside of the churches, it’s a signature of the palaeo and red-haze subcultures (two sets of people with much in common in their disposition toward the country in which they live).
I stumbled on what I think is the common thread for Jew hatred– they screw up the theories.
Seriously, look at all the utter horror that’s been thrown at them for basically as far back as we can find generally agreed on sources, and… they’re still here, heck they tend to be successful. (I attribute that to Himself’s religious rules being a sort of cheat-sheet on ‘this is how it’s supposed to work,’ even the ones that don’t make a lot of sense “rationally,” that that just spreads out the ‘screws up the theories’ to observant Christians. Which shouldn’t surprise folks. :D)
For their modern heresy– they refuse to be victims.
Heck, I got the “Jewish Holidays in short: they tried to kill us, we’re alive, let’s eat” from a Jewish friend– how DARE they struggle and overcome adversity, rather than laying down and crying about it?
Foxfier wrote, “how DARE they struggle and overcome adversity…”
Alain Finkielkraut makes much the same point: “European unity is constructed around a series of ‘never agains.’ No more war, nor power, nor empire, nor nationalism. Progressive Europe has disavowed its embarrassing past. This makes it ill at ease with a state – Israel – that clings to its borders just as Europe renounces its own, that nurtures its army just as Europe demilitarizes, and that must combat implacable enemies just as Europe denies such things exist.”