Tal como hemos dicho en otras
ocasiones: La voracidad de algunos apetitos nunca se sacia. En un comunicado
de prensa, Feb-11-2013, supuestamente para desear parabienes a Benedicto
XVI con ocasión de su renuncia voluntaria al papado, la Liga
antidifamación escribe, entre otras, estas idioteces palabras:
Hubo baches en
el camino durante este papado, la reescritura de la antigua oración de Viernes
Santo por los Judíos haciéndola más problemática para los Judíos, comenzar
negociaciones con el grupo antisemita de la Sociedad [Fraternidad] de San Pío
X, y llevar al Papa de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Pío XII, un paso más cerca a
la santidad, mientras que el Archivo Secreto Vaticano sigue todavía en secreto.
Pero él escuchó nuestras preocupaciones y trató de manejarlas, lo que demuestra
lo cerca que nuestras dos comunidades han llegado a estar en el último medio
siglo, y cuánto más trabajo tenemos que hacer juntos para ayudar a reparar un
mundo quebrantado.
[...]
¡Menos mal el tal comunicado era
un gesto de cortesía...!
El comunicado de prensa entero:
Press Release
ADL
Wishes Pope Benedict Well as he Moves into Retirement
New York, NY, February 11, 2013 … The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed great appreciation and wishes of
good health for Pope Benedict XVI following his stunning announcement that he
will retire on February 28 – the first pope to retire in office in 600 years.
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, who
had five audiences with the pope during his nearly eight years as pontiff,
issued the following statement:
Benedict XVI has profoundly bolstered the
positive trajectory of Catholic-Jewish relations launched by his predecessor,
Pope John Paul II. Benedict, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, worked closely
with John Paul during his 26 year papacy, developing a historic new
relationship between Catholic and Jews as “loving brothers and sisters” after
centuries of tragedy.
In his tenure as pope, Benedict pledged that he
would always stand with the Jewish people against anti-Semitism. He
strongly condemned Holocaust denial. He made it a point early in his
papacy to visit Israel, going to Yad Vashem and the Western Wall, thus
cementing the historic act of his predecessor for future generations and
strengthening the relationship between Israel and the Vatican. He became
the first pope to visit a synagogue in the United States. And he also
visited the synagogue in Rome, institutionalizing these visits.
Pope Benedict XVI reconfirmed the official
Catholic position that God’s covenant with the Jewish people at Sinai endures
and is irrevocable. He said that the Catholic Church should not try and
convert Jews.
There were bumps in the road during this papacy
– the rewriting of the old Good Friday prayer for Jews making it more
problematic for Jews, starting negotiations with the anti-Semitic group
the Society of St. Pius X, and moving World War II Pope Pius XII one step
closer to sainthood while the Secret Vatican Archives are still under
wraps. But he listened to our concerns and tried to address them, which
shows how close our two communities have become in the last half century, and
how much more work we need to do together to help repair a broken world.
In his trilogy on the life of Jesus of
Nazareth, Benedict re-interpreted problematic passages in the Gospels of
Matthew and John that dismisses the negative images and false charges against
the Jewish people which has led to millennia of persecution and death against
Jews.
He importantly declared the validity of the
Jewish reading of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanach.
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is
the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and
services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
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