[Let's first make a distinction between believers and the people who lead their Churches.]
The Pope has just written a book about the death of Jesus. He has finally absolved the Jews, as a race, for the death of Jesus. It used to be practically official policy to pin the blame on that nation, and not a particular individual or individuals. With all the Scholastic history of analysis, this one analysis did not change.
Now, apparently, it was the Temple hierarchy who are to blame. Unfortunately, there is no mention of the role of the money traders that Jesus pissed off by wrecking their trading in the temple. The bankers got the politicians to kill Jesus.
This is so pertinent to this day and age, where bankers and governments are colluding to disenfranchise and enslave millions of people.
Why was Pope Ratzi doing this now? Has he finally seen the problem with the Roman tactic of collective punishment? Is he trying to attract people by showing a less racist attitude in the Catholic hierarchy?
He could have taken this opportunity to decry the evils of banking. He could have fired a shot across the bow of his own Bankers.
The Vatican has bankers to better deal with their billions.
So, if you think that religion is supposed to do good deeds and giving
everything to help the poor, look away from the Catholic Church.
Their bankers have gotten mixed up with the Mafia.
One of them, the so-called "God's banker",
was found swinging lifeless from Blackfriars bridge,
in London, twenty years back.
was found swinging lifeless from Blackfriars bridge,
in London, twenty years back.
Some important things to be said about this:
1. what the hell took them so long to see the "truth" in the book they have been using for worship for about 2000 years?
2. was the Church based on hatred of the people whose Talmud they 'borrowed'?
3. why doesn't the Pope say why the bankers killed Jesus? Answer: because that church is greedy like the bankers, themselves.
4. why don't they admit that doing deals with governments is how Pius 12th ended up 'in bed' with the Nazis? Now, Ratzi, of the Hitler youth, wants Pius to be a saint. Christianity is by its nature a religion of resistance, of peaceful defiance, but that's not always clear to the hierarchy.
POPE URBAN 12thLetters to Zerohedge, on Jesus vs bankers:
by flacon
on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 22:16
Do you know the first thing Jesus did - right before he started his ministry? He gave the middle finger to the bankers (money-changers).
Matthew 21:
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And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
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And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. [what did you say about Wall Street?-Cos67]
Cos67 ¬(%^D>
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Pope concludes those responsible for the crucifixion were the 'Temple aristocracy' and supporters of the rebel Barabbas
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* John Hooper in Rome
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 March 2011 19.53 GMT
Pope Benedict XVI The pope writes in his new book that Jesus’s death was not about punishment, but salvation.
The pope has written a detailed and personal repudiation of the idea that the Jews were collectively responsible for the death of Jesus.
In a book to be published next week, he concludes that those responsible for the crucifixion were the "Temple aristocracy" and supporters of the rebel Barabbas.
Dismissing the centuries-old interpretation of St John's assertion that it was "the Jews" who demanded Barabbas's release and Jesus's execution, the pontiff asks: "How could the whole people have been present at this moment to clamour for Jesus's death?"
The notion of collective Jewish guilt, which bedevilled relations between the two faiths, was disowned by the Roman Catholic church at the second Vatican council in 1965. But this is thought to be the first time a pope has carried out such a detailed, theological demolition of the concept.
It is particularly significant coming from the pen of a German-born pontiff who has more than once been at the eye of a storm in Jewish-Catholic relations. Elan Steinberg, vice-president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, told Reuters: "This is a major step forward. This is a personal repudiation of the theological underpinning of centuries of antisemitism."
Benedict's analysis featured in extracts from the second volume of his work, Jesus of Nazareth, released on Wednesday by the Vatican's publishers. The first volume was published four years ago. The second, due out on 10 March, deals with Jesus's later life, death and the resurrection that is central to Christian belief.
The pope also focuses on another phrase from the gospel often used against Jews. St Matthew describes the crowd as saying: "His blood be on us and on our children."
Benedict writes that Jesus's death was not about punishment, but salvation. The blood he shed "does not cry out for vengeance and punishment, it brings reconciliation," he writes.
The pope, who as a young boy belonged to the Hitler Youth, attracted a barrage of criticism two years ago he when he lifted the excommunication of an ultra-traditionalist British bishop, Richard Williamson, who had cast doubt on the extent of the Holocaust.
Later the same year he was criticised for furthering the advance towards sainthood of Pius XII. The Vatican lauds the wartime pope for working quietly to save Jewish lives, but his critics argue he should have openly denounced the Nazis' genocide.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/02/pope-jews-jesus-death-crucifixion
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1982: 'God's banker' found hanged
The body of a top Italian banker has been found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London.
Known as God's banker for his links with the Vatican, 62-year-old Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano in Milan and a central figure in a complex web of international fraud and intrigue.
He had been missing for the last nine days before his body was discovered by a passer-by hanging from scaffolding on a riverside walk under the bridge.
Police are treating the death as suicide.
Jail sentence
Mr Calvi became chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, now Italy's largest private bank, in 1975 and built up a vast financial empire. ...
