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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3710810.stm
Anne Catherine Emmerich's The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is a work that is far more explicit in its efforts to blame the Jews for "killing Christ," than Gibson's film derived from it. It is riddled from cover to cover with anti-semitic slurs (and yes, I've cracked the cover on this dreck).
That this pope would beatify this woman really does give the lie to his earlier ecumenical efforts, and makes clearer than any false words offered up at the wailing wall that the Catholic Church's position with respect to the Jews has not changed one whit since the days of Chrysostom, Augustine, or the Inquisition.
Anne Catherine Emmerich's The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is a work that is far more explicit in its efforts to blame the Jews for "killing Christ," than Gibson's film derived from it. It is riddled from cover to cover with anti-semitic slurs (and yes, I've cracked the cover on this dreck).
That this pope would beatify this woman really does give the lie to his earlier ecumenical efforts, and makes clearer than any false words offered up at the wailing wall that the Catholic Church's position with respect to the Jews has not changed one whit since the days of Chrysostom, Augustine, or the Inquisition.
