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New [Confusing] Ratzinger Text about Jews Avoids Accurate Answers

The former Benedict XVI has published a text about the Jews in the theological journal Communio. According to KathPress.at (July 6), the text entitled „Grace and vocation without remorse”, is signed …More
The former Benedict XVI has published a text about the Jews in the theological journal Communio.
According to KathPress.at (July 6), the text entitled „Grace and vocation without remorse”, is signed on October 26, 2017, with “Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI”.
It is a reflection given to Cardinal Kurt Koch who convinced Ratzinger to publish it.
The text deals with two themes, the "theory of substitution" and the fact that "the covenant was [obviously] never abrogated". Ratzinger is however more interested in political correctness than in theological truth.
He claims that it is "basically true" that "Israel is not substituted by the Church" but this is only true in a sociological, not in a theological sense, because after Christ "there is no distinction between Jews and Greeks" (Rom 10,12).
Thus, there cannot be a "Jewish" way of salvation without Christ as the heretic, Cardinal Walter Kasper, has claimed.
By not making clear distinctions, Ratzinger's text is a source of confusion not …More
mattsixteen24
@yuca2111 No, Benedict is not much different than the other Vatican II popes. Visiting and praying with jews. Visiting synagogues. Praying in Mosques with Moslems. Benedict changed the Good Friday prayer to appease the jews. The jews like him very much.
www.traditioninaction.org/…/A252rcRatzJewsi…
In the picture from the link you can even see Cardinal Burke with the jews awarding Benedict.More
@yuca2111 No, Benedict is not much different than the other Vatican II popes. Visiting and praying with jews. Visiting synagogues. Praying in Mosques with Moslems. Benedict changed the Good Friday prayer to appease the jews. The jews like him very much.

www.traditioninaction.org/…/A252rcRatzJewsi…

In the picture from the link you can even see Cardinal Burke with the jews awarding Benedict.