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1 - Feb 2016 - Mary “treasured these things and pondered them in her heart”, Peter Westmore
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But internal evidence including the authors clear attempt to anchor his history at a particular moment in both Jewish history and that of the Roman Empire suggests that either directly or indirectly the infancy narrative came from Mary herself because only she would have known these details and could have related them in such a personal way.
2 - Feb 2016 - “Seek and you shall find ...” (Matthew 7:7), Andrew Scholl
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(Andrew Sholl is co-founder of the Association of Hebrew Catholics which aims to end the alienation of Catholics of Jewish origin and background from their historical heritage.
3 - Feb 2016 - Nostra Aetate: Jewish rabbis’ historic reappraisal of Christianity, AD2000 Report
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Twenty five prominent Jewish rabbis have co-signed a historic statement which attempts to set relations between Judaism and Christianity on a new and better footing to redeem the world.
4 - Dec 2015 - Has the Messiah come or returned?, Andrew Sholl
Coming from someone whom I knew to be Jewish although he did not wear a kippa (a skull cap) momentarily stunned me.
5 - Nov 2015 - Salvation: "All Israel will be saved": Romans 11:26, Andrew Sholl
Note all nations which of course includes the Jewish nation Israel.
6 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: SSM will threaten religious liberty in Australia: Archbishop Fisher, AD2000 Report
Already one Catholic bishop has been briefly gaoled for refusing to apply the state-approved LGBTIQQ Safety Protocols and Awareness Program to the schools in his diocese; and parents at Jewish and Muslim schools have been advised that they may not withdraw their children from such programs.
7 - Oct 2015 - Hebrew Catholics: “Salvation comes from the Jews” (John 4:22), Andrew Sholl
9% Jewish and now 99.
8 - Oct 2015 - Call to action: Call for urgent action on Religious Education
The Archbishop in the Catholic Weekly article referred to above described a conversation with a prominent non-practising Jewish friend who once taught trainee teachers with him:He told me he was mystified that children at Jewish schools emerged well-versed in the theology and traditions customs and heroes of the Jewish religion whether or not they believed or practised Judaism but that so many of the Catholic school graduates we were then preparing to be teachers knew so little about their tradition and Catholic leaders and systems seemed resigned to that.
9 - Sep 2015 - Hebrew: The Sign of the Cross, Andrew Sholl
However how many Christians are aware that the sign in the shape of a cross was part of the daily Jewish liturgy of the Temple in Jerusalem right up to its destruction by the Romans in 70 AD?
10 - Aug 2015 - The Holy Land: Believers in Israel, Andrew Scholl
His Hungarian Jewish wife was not aware of his baptism: neither was his daughter nor the girls school where he was teaching.
11 - Jul 2015 - Books: THE MYTH OF HITLER’S POPE, by Rabbi David G. Dalin, Paul Simmons
What made the Jewish holocaust different from the others was not numbers: arguably more were killed in Ukraine and China.
12 - Jul 2015 - Letters: Sexual abuse of children: a response, Anne Lastmen
When reading the ongoing disagreements I remembered going to a Jewish religious service and remember the rabbi coming into the synagogue holding aloft a beautiful Torah Scroll with its crown of many jewels and the reverence with which it was seen and held.
13 - Jul 2015 - Scripture: Ephphata! Be opened! (Mark 7:34), Andrew Sholl
We are not told why but Jesus is sensitive to the needs of a person to their feelings and need for privacy whether that person was Jewish or Gentile.
14 - Jun 2015 - Jesus: the extra-Biblical evidence, Andrew Sholl
Thus we have the Jewish Talmud (a commentary on the Tanah or Old Testament and many others matters besides).
15 - May 2015 - Television: "Jesus: Rise to Power" - flawed account of early Christianity, AD2000 Report
Even a cursory examination of the Gospel of Matthew shows that it was written by and for Jewish believers in Jesus Christ so it must have been written in the years after Jesus death and resurrection before there were a significant number of non-Jewish converts a process which was well under way by 50AD.
16 - May 2015 - Translation: Understanding God’s word in the Scriptures, Andrew Sholl
nbsp; (Andrew Sholl is co-founder of the Association of Hebrew Catholics which aims to end the alienation of Catholics of Jewish origin and background from their historical heritage.
17 - May 2015 - Exhibition: Exposition of the Holy Shroud of Turin, AD2000 Report
All four Gospels record that Joseph of Arimathea a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin and a secret disciple of Jesus had obtained permission from Pontius Pilate the Roman governor to remove Jesus body from the cross before the Passover.
18 - Apr 2015 - Books: THE MASS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, by Mike Aquilina, Paul Simmons
Jewish rituals Mr Aquilina has a most perceptive discussion about how the first Christians being Jews followed Jewish religious rituals as did Jesus.
19 - Apr 2015 - Pilate's inscription on the Cross, Andrew Sholl
Hebrew liturgy The final comment I would like to make as a Hebrew Catholic and a survivor of the horrors of the Holocaust at age 4 to 5 Im now 75 is about the much-maligned Pope Pius XII who according to well- authenticated Jewish sources is credited with saving hundreds of thousands of Jews from almost certain death.
20 - Apr 2015 - Today's prophets: where are they?, Anne Lastman
What about Pius XII who guided the church through the war years and protected and helped Jewish people in wartime Europe through various hidden ways and today is acknowledged as Righteous amongst the nations a title of honour given to those gentiles who helped Jews during the Holocaust.
21 - Apr 2015 - Editorial: Welcome!
They had believed that he was the Messiah the anointed one of God who was going to set his people free but like the rest of the Jewish people they understood the Messiah as the liberator who would free his people from the yoke of Roman domination.
22 - Mar 2015 - Apps: Smartphone apps to bring you closer to God, Peter Westmore
When it comes to Bible translations it is worth keeping in mind that there are three traditions: the Jewish Catholic and Protestant.
23 - Mar 2015 - The linen cloth and the Second Coming, Andrew Sholl
In the Gospel accounts of Jesus Passion all four evangelists record that after His death on the Cross Jesus was buried in a new tomb donated by Joseph of Arimathea a senior member of the Jewish community a member of the Sanhedrin and a secret disciple of Jesus.
24 - Feb 2015 - The Eighteen Benedictions of Judaism ... and Christianity, Andrew Sholl
) to eliminate any hurtful words phrases or prayers which might offend the Jewish people.
25 - Feb 2015 - The Pope and the Holocaust: why did Pius XII not speak out?, Robert A. Graham SJ
Thus although anti-Jewish measures were met in France by public protest from Archbishop Saliege of Toulouse together with Archbishop Gerlier of Lyons and Bishop Thias of Mantauban their protest was backed by a highly effective rescue and shelter campaign with 200000 lives saved.
26 - Dec 2014 - Separation of church and state: the position outside Australia, Frank Mobbs
In Alsace and Moselle where the Concordat between France and the Holy See still prevails Catholic priests as well as the clergy of three other religious groups (Lutheran Calvinist and Jewish) are paid by the State and schools have religion courses.
27 - Nov 2014 - Scripture: Is the Hebrew Bible incomplete?, Andrew Sholl
On that day the Jewish people lined up in rows at the Temple (and now in the synagogue) and recited all the possible sins that they could have committed.
28 - Nov 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
So the Christians are really being squeezed and we have to advocate for them also among both the Muslim and Jewish sisters and brothers because it is the Holy Land which we consider to be so sacred and special.
29 - Oct 2014 - Books: A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO: A novel of pre-war Germany, by Lucy Beckett, Michael Daniel
Their circle is augmented by Anna Grossman a Jewess from a wealthy family and Dr Halpern and his sister Eva a Jewish doctor and his sister from Vilna.
30 - Oct 2014 - Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint: What's the difference?, Andrew Sholl
It was he who asked seventy Jewish elders/scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek.
31 - Sep 2014 - Books: ON HEAVEN AND EARTH: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st C, Br Barry Coldrey
However they will also find of great interest Rabbi Skorkas knowledge of Talmudic lore or Jewish folk stories (such as the story of the Golem of Prague).
32 - Sep 2014 - Association of Hebrew Catholics: its role and mission, Andrew Sholl
Father Elias born Jack Friedman was a medical doctor in the South African Army whose family originally came from Russian-occupied Lithuania in 1881 following anti-Jewish pogroms.
33 - Jul 2014 - Summorum Pontificum: Growth of Latin Mass parishes and chaplaincies in Australia, Michael E. Daniel
St Aloysius Church used by Bl John Henry Newman parish for most of its Masses is in an area of Melbourne with a high Jewish population that now has only a tiny resident Catholic population.
34 - Jul 2014 - Middle East: Pope Francis cuts through divisions in the Holy Land, AD2000 Report
It was a distinctive mark of the Holy Fathers visit that he was accompanied on the trip by two friends from Argentina the Jewish rabbi Abraham Skorka and the Muslim cleric Sheikh Omar Abboud.
35 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Rabbi Skorka on Popes Holy Land trip Whether I am present or not I am convinced that this trip will usher in a new era in Jewish-Christian dialogue: the era of empathy.
36 - May 2014 - Editorial: April 27: Canonisation of two great popes, Peter Westmore
During World War II when he was papal nuncio in Bulgaria he saved the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi Holocaust.
37 - Apr 2014 - Passover: Jesus last words: 'It is finished', Anne Lastman
The Jewish scholar Israel Jakob Yuval wrote In fact if we trace the history of the afikoman on the one hand and that of the Host on the other we do in fact discover an ancient similarity between the two.
38 - Apr 2014 - Radicalism in Islam: the Christian response, Father Samir Khalil Samir SJ
We have different approaches to God the Muslim approach the Christian and Jewish as well as other approaches.
39 - Mar 2014 - Reflection: Archbishop Chaput's homily on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
The Psalmist wrote those words not in some magic time of peace and bliss but in the midst of the Jewish peoples struggle to survive and stay faithful to Gods covenant surrounded by enemies and divided internally among themselves.
40 - Mar 2014 - Books: THE WORLD OF ST PAUL, by Joseph M. Callewaert, Michael Daniel
He begins with a survey of Jewish communities outside of Judaea early in the first century AD - St Paul himself was born into such a community at Tarsus.
41 - Feb 2014 - Reflections: Australia Day: A time for thanks and commitment, Cardinal George Pell
Think of the flowers he said which neither spin nor weave but are robed in a way that not even King Solomon the flashiest of the Jewish Kings could equal.
42 - Feb 2014 - Victorian Inquiry: First report into clerical sex abuse released, Peter Westmore
The inquiry examined allegations of sexual abuse of children within the Anglican Church the Salvation Army and the Jewish faith but its most trenchant criticism was directed towards the Catholic Churchs treatment of allegations the failure to inform law enforcement agencies where criminal behaviour had occurred or was suspected and the lack of support for the victims who were often not believed when they complained of sexual abuse.
43 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
He quoted a Jewish lawyer named Kempner who said: People who had no responsibility in government who had never dealt with a situation like this would not understand it .
44 - Dec 2013 - Editorial: A Christmas Wish, Peter Westmore
When we reflect on the event itself the birth of a Jewish baby boy in a stable in a remote corner of the Roman empire then the most powerful empire the world had ever seen it is humanly impossible to believe that in that moment the world as it had existed since man first stood on earth was changed forever.
45 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Catholic-Jewish relations at a new high The World Jewish Congress provided a summary of its presidents September meeting with Pope Francis saying that the Holy Father reiterated that to be a good Christian it is necessary to understand Jewish history and traditions.
46 - Oct 2013 - Books: COURAGE AND CONVICTION, by Joanna Bogle, Peter Westmore
The Bridgetine sisters in Rome immediately took in Jewish families who were hidden in the sisters private rooms.
47 - Sep 2013 - A covenant: essence of true marriage, Anne Lastman
Progressive Jewish understanding of their relationship to God was seen as evolving not from human marriage to divine covenant but from divine covenant to human marriage.
48 - Sep 2013 - Oasis: Finding rapprochement and peace among the Abrahamic religions, Patrick Byrne
First is the Jewish people to whom the testament and the promises were given and from whom Christ was born according to the flesh.
49 - Aug 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Humanity needs our joint witness in favour of respect for the dignity of man and woman created in the image and likeness of God and in favour of peace which is above all Gods gift the Pope told members of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations.
50 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore
In 1945 just after the liberation the seminarian Karol Wojtyla helped a 14-year-old Jewish refugee girl named Edith Zierer who had run away from a Nazi labour camp in Czestochowa.
51 - Jul 2013 - Parody?: Anti-Catholic hate speech, Aussie Style (Move on, nothing to see here), R.J. Stove
There will be three types of cards: blue cards for mainstream people red cards for Catholic and Jewish people and green cards for everyone else.
52 - Jun 2013 - Books: AGE OF MARTYRS: from Diocletian to Constantine, Abbot Joseph Ricciotti, Br Barry Coldrey
Persecutions At first the Romans presumed that the Christians were a Jewish sect and they were left to worship in peace.
53 - Jun 2013 - Redefining marriage: what of the rights of children?, Denise Hunnell
In spite of the political and cultural momentum favouring this radical new paradigm for marriage there is still a strong opposition in France that is supported and encouraged by Catholic Jewish and Muslim leaders and laity.
54 - May 2013 - Reflection: Pentecost: opening our minds to truth and our hearts to love, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
The coming of the Holy Spirit on the apostles took place on the Jewish feast of Shavuot known also as the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost.
55 - May 2013 - Ancient Greek contributions to Western Church music, Christopher Warner
But unlike the Greek Christians of the fourth century who were apprehensive of Jewish tradition the Roman Church was very interested in preserving the Jewish liturgical traditions of psalmody.
56 - Apr 2013 - Books: FESTA PASCHALIA: A History of Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite, Goddard, Michael Daniel
Stronger evidence for a first century celebration is the fact that the date of Easter is fixed by the Lunar calendar as the Jewish Passover is fixed rather than the Roman calendar reflective of the brief predominance of Jewish Christians over Gentile Christians in the first century.
57 - Apr 2013 - Books: PERPETUA'S PASSIONS, ed. Jan N. Bremmer and Marco Formisano, Peter Westmore
Similarly in the chapter titled Jewish martyrdom I found the claim that Perpetuas father represented her former non-Christian identity unconvincing likewise the claim that the Passion implies that it is impossible to be a mother and a martyr at the same time.
58 - Apr 2013 - Letters: The Second Coming, Andrew Sholl
Let me elaborate: it has everything to do with Jewish table manners at the time.
59 - Apr 2013 - Child sexual abuse: looking beyond the institutions, Anne Lastman
The Jewish faith indeed all religions and organisations are afflicted with this grievous wound.
60 - Mar 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Edith Stein was a Jewish woman who converted to Catholicism became a nun and perished in a Nazi death camp.
61 - Feb 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-38534-640-5 Suffering of Love Regis Martin Quoting widely from Christian Jewish and secular sources Regis Martin provides an unflinching examination of the universal question of the meaning of suffering analysing the deeper meaning of Christs life passion death and resurrection.
62 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Christian unity, Andrew Sholl
Now as a Hebrew Catholic I am very conscious of the meanings of the English word body in Hebrew (the Jewish liturgical language at the time of Jesus and even now) and Aramaic (the vernacular used by Jesus and other Jews during his time on earth).
63 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
In both Jewish practice and the ways of the Roman Empire marriage was based more on perpetuating family ties or inheritance or property or status rather than on love.
64 - Jul 2012 - Books: THE FACE OF GOD and THE TRUE ICON, by Paul Badde, Paul MacLeod
He argues that the Shroud and the Veil present us with two witnesses to the reality of the Resurrection the two witnesses required by Jewish law.
65 - Jul 2012 - Books: FR ALEXANDER MEN: Martyr of Atheism, by Michel Evdokimov, Michael Daniel
Of Jewish origin when aged seven months both he and his mother were baptised secretly by Fr Seraphim Batioukov a priest of the Church of the Catacombs.
66 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Anti-Catholicism, Fr. M. Shadbolt
Jon Faine of the ABC admitted that sexual abuse of children existed elsewhere even in some Jewish organisations.
67 - Apr 2012 - Books: LIGHT OF THE WORLD: The Pope, the Church and Signs of the Times, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Like his predecessor John Paul II Benedict has a profound respect for Judaism as the root of Christianity and the Jewish people as our fathers in faith.
68 - Apr 2012 - Culture: US Churches unite against Obama over religious liberty, Babette Francis
Not to be outdone Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport in hearings before the House Committee drew an analogy between Jewish opposition to the consumption of pork and Catholic opposition to contraception.
69 - Apr 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
US religious leaders opposition to Obama Evangelical and Jewish leaders declared their solidarity with Catholics on 10 February as the Obama administration sought to quell controversy over its policy on contraception and religious ministries.
70 - Nov 2011 - The Lion of Munster: Blessed Cardinal von Galen: a voice against tyranny, Babette Francis
At his death the president of the regional association of Jewish communities wrote to the Capitular Vicar in Mnster: Cardinal von Galen was one of the few upright and conscientious men who fought against racialism in a most difficult time.
71 - Nov 2011 - Pastoral visit: Benedict XVI calls his visit to Germany 'a great feast of faith'
During his visit the Pope also spoke to representatives of Germanys Jewish and Muslim communities.
72 - Aug 2011 - Exegesis: Genesis account of creation and fall: what does the Church teach?, John Young
The Pontifical Biblical Commission in 1909 declared that the first three chapters of Genesis contain true history basing this answer on the testimony of both the Old and New Testaments the almost unanimous opinion of the Fathers of the Church and the traditional view which - transmitted also by the Jewish people - has always been held by the Church that these chapters contain the narrative of things that actually happened (see AAS 1909 567-569).
73 - Aug 2011 - Defending the Catholic Church against ill-informed attacks, Fr John Flynn LC
Coren born into a secular family with a Jewish father became a Catholic in his mid-20s.
74 - Jul 2011 - Hugh O'Flaherty: The priest who converted his former Nazi enemy, Stephen Walker
The two men were engaged in a deadly game of hide and seek as the charismatic Kerry priest was running an escape operation for Allied servicemen and Jewish civilians from the confines of his Vatican office.
75 - Jun 2011 - Reflection: Pentecost, the feast of true hope for humanity, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
The Jewish Hellenistic writer Philo explains that Gods words at Sinai came first as flames which then became words and voices.
76 - Jun 2011 - Books: JESUS OF NAZARETH: Holy Week, by Pope Benedict XVI, Fr Glen Tattersall FSSP
Jewish history A striking feature of both volumes has been the Popes mastery of Jewish history theology and liturgy.
77 - Jun 2011 - Moral values and the march of science, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
As a result in the words of the great Jewish bioethicist Leon Kass we live in an age of salvific science.
78 - Jun 2011 - Letters: Catholic religious education: some grassroots views, John Morissey
I attended as an observer because I am vitally interested in the subject and have gained some perspective while teaching in State Catholic Protestant and Jewish schools over many years.
79 - Jun 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Several Jewish leaders have paid tribute to Blessed John Paul II following his beatification.
80 - Mar 2011 - Books: Theophilos: A Novel, by Michael O'Brien, Michael Daniel
The bulk of the novel is set in AD64 and 65 in Crete and the Holy Land the period of Neros persecution of the early Church and the last years of relative peace prior to the Jewish Wars.
81 - Mar 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Jewish-Christian Cooperation In Israel On 12 January Benedict XVI met with prominent Israeli Rabbi Shlomo Riskin who updated him on the efforts of the Jewish community to support local Christians in the face of mounting tensions with Islamic militants.
82 - Nov 2010 - Books: HIS NAME IS MERCY, by Fr Ken Barker MGL, Archbishop Denis Hart
In the Jewish understanding God does not have a name but demonstrates through action who he is and that is why his name is mercy.
83 - Oct 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
This book gathers together the principal fruits of his research and explains the major discoveries of significance to the life of Jesus and the first Jewish Christians.
84 - Sep 2010 - Books: Edith Stein Discovered / Edith Stein and Companions, Terri Kelleher
She was the youngest and favourite child of her devout orthodox Jewish mother.
85 - Sep 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Do people of faith lack reason?, Frank Mobbs
The Christian Origen (died 254 AD) in replying to his skilled Jewish opponent Celsus who said Christians were ordered not to reason but believe wrote: .
86 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
World War II research vindicates Pius XII Claims of papal inaction in the face of Jewish persecution during World War II have been further challenged by a German historian conducting research in the Vatican archives who says that Pope Pius XII may have arranged for the escape of 200000 Jews from Germany in the weeks after the Kristallnacht Nazi attacks.
87 - Sep 2010 - Britain prepares for Benedict XVI's visit, Joanna Bogle
They ignore his anti-Nazi credentials his decades-long work for Christian-Jewish relations which launched the ground-breaking visit of Pope John Paul to Romes synagogue his encyclicals on love and hope.
88 - Aug 2010 - Books: BLESSED PIUS IX, by Roberto de Mattei, Michael Daniel
Ironically the focus of these was the Mortara affair an incident in which Pius IX upheld a ban on a Jewish child who had been baptised without his parents consent from being returned to his natural parents.
89 - Jul 2010 - Newly discovered World War II documents further vindicate Pius XII
We have additional testimony from Lieutenant Nikolaus Kunkel a German officer from the headquarters of the military governor of Rome which corroborates documented evidence and testimony of exactly how Pius XII directly saved the Roman Jewish community and that they were expecting the invasion order from Berlin any day.
90 - Jun 2010 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the Church's birth and universality at Pentecost, Pope Benedict XVI
This community was gathered in the same place the Upper Room on the morning of the Jewish Feast of Pentecost the feast of the Covenant which commemorated the Sinai event when God through Moses proposed that Israel be his own possession among all peoples to be a sign of his holiness (cf.
91 - Jun 2010 - Passover: Understanding the Jewish traditions behind the Catholic Mass, Gabrielle Walsh
The aim of the event which was very well attended was to deepen understanding of the Jewish traditions that underpin the Catholic Mass given that the Passover or Seder Meal is similar to the Last Supper that Jesus celebrated with his Apostles.
92 - Jun 2010 - Editorial: Pentecost Sunday: the 'birthday of the Church', Michael Gilchrist
This took place on the ancient Jewish festival called the feast of weeks or Pentecost which occurred 50 days after the Passover and celebrated the sealing of the Old Covenant on Mount Sinai.
93 - May 2010 - Letters: Child abuse, Arnold Jago
Following constant media statements about the Catholic Church and child abuse the Popes official preacher on Good Friday quoted a letter from a Jewish friend: The stereotyping the transfer or personal responsibility and blame to a collective blame reminds me of the most shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.
94 - May 2010 - Conversion: 'Strangely and suspiciously tall': an Evangelical meets the Mother of God, Terri Kelleher
He said there is no evidence that she had any other children and that the claim from Scripture that some of the disciples were referred to as Jesus brothers is not conclusive as in Jewish culture at the time brother had a fairly loose meaning.
95 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey
In fact within a short time the developing Eucharistic liturgy was deeply influenced by the Jewish synagogue service and had two parts: The proclamation of Gods word which comprised prayers readings from Scripture and a homily and was attended by the baptised and those preparing for baptism.
96 - Apr 2010 - Foundations of Faith: How do Catholics relate to non-Christians?, Fr Dudley Perera OMI
The traditional Jewish stance of belittling pagan nations and their gods still prevailed at the time of Jesus mission in Palestine.
97 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Speaking on the significance of the documents Krupp who is Jewish explained how the accusations against Pope Pius XII surfaced.
98 - Mar 2010 - Events: AD2000 - Passover Meal - 30 March 2010
But by using some of the basic Jewish prayers and an adaptation of the traditional questions of the Passover meal Catholics can become more familiar with the Jewish tradition .
99 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Here he is virtually accusing the German people of injustice toward the Jews and makes himself the mouthpiece of the Jewish war criminals.
100 - Feb 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Celebrating the Eucharist during the early Christian centuries, Br Barry Coldrey
We saw in the previous article that the developing Eucharistic liturgy - deeply influenced by the Jewish synagogue service - had two parts.
101 - Dec 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Eucharist: what the Old and New Testaments tell us, Br Barry Coldrey
Jesus instituted the Eucharist in the context of and at the end of the annual Jewish Passover meal.
102 - Nov 2009 - Books: JESUS AND THE EYEWITNESSES: Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, by Richard Bauckham, Peter Westmore
) Richard Bauckhams award-winning book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses throws into question over a century of biblical scholarship in a work which radically challenges the fashionable view that Jesus was merely an itinerant Jewish rabbi executed by the Roman Governor of Judaea and that Christianity is a religion devised by his zealous followers.
103 - Nov 2009 - Holocaust: English nun who saved Jews from the Nazis put forward as saint, AD2000 Report
She said: We were helping many Jewish people during the war and Mother Riccarda was helping Mother Elizabeth to hide them.
104 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
An objection often heard is that if a woman cannot represent Jesus because he was male Jewish and wore a beard neither then can a clean- shaven non-Jewish male represent Jesus.
105 - Aug 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone): a recipe for doctrinal chaos, Dr Frank Mobbs
The Jewish Scriptures hinted at things Christ said and did and the first Christians seized on those hints in order to convince fellow Jews of the truth of the claims of Christ.
106 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
The foundation also reported its findings from research on some of the Vatican Secret Archives documents noting the discovery of many examples of the direct actions and of the pastoral ministry of Eugenio Pacelli to save Jews from Nazi tyranny as well as documented proof of his direct intercession to protect the Jews of Palestine from the Ottoman Turks in 1917 and his encouraging the idea of the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine in 1925.
107 - Jul 2009 - Books: Before the Dawn, by Eugenio Zolli, Michael Daniel
One of the most controversial Jewish figures to become a Christian was Eugenio Zolli (Israel Zoller) former Chief Rabbi of Rome who together with his wife was baptised on 17 February 1945 following the liberation of Rome.
108 - Jul 2009 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Bible, by Peter Stravinskas, Br Barry Coldrey
The most useful material deals with the Biblical basis of the Mass in which the central canon of the Eucharist is enshrined in a Liturgy of the Word which owes much to the Jewish synagogue service.
109 - Jul 2009 - History: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: revisiting Jewish sources, Fr Michael Butler
Zolli details how the Vatican warned him just before the Germans arrived that there would be a German persecution but the Jewish leadership in Rome ignored Zollis advice to hide.
110 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Pontius Pilate, Grahame Fallon
Under Roman Law the Jewish people retained the right to stone to death a Jew deemed guilty of a capital offence under Jewish Law.
111 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Holy Land Pilgrimage - Association of Hebrew Catholics, Andrew Scholl
On his mothers side the Bishop is Jewish thus by Halakha rendering him Jewish: an ideal choice for visiting the land of Jesus Mary and the Apostles all of whom were Jewish.
112 - Jun 2009 - Editorial: Pentecost Sunday: birthday of the Church, Michael Gilchrist
Later after the Apostles were arrested by the Jewish authorities Peter informs the elders rulers and scribes in no-nonsense vein: This is the stone which was rejected by you builders but which has become the cornerstone.
113 - May 2009 - Inter-faith dialogue: Jewish leader defends Pope over Bishop Williamson controversy, AD2000 Report
Rabbi Levin particularly defended the Pope saying he was the genius behind the moves of the late Pope John Paul II to reconcile the Church with the Jewish community.
114 - Apr 2009 - Books: LIVING BIBLICALLY, by Archbishop Barry Hickey, Michael Gilchrist
They will accompany him in his final confrontation with the Jewish authorities that leads to his crucifixion and resurrection.
115 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Hippies, Stephen Hemingway
He rejects the notion that Christ gave the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to a humble Jewish fisherman and his successors in Rome.
116 - Mar 2009 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: why kneeling is central to Christian worship, Benedict XVI
Apparently Saint James the brother of the Lord the first bishop of Jerusalem and head of the Jewish Christian Church had a kind of callous on his knees because he was always on his knees worshipping God and begging forgiveness for his people (2 23 6).
117 - Mar 2009 - Books: Labour and Justice, by Gavan Duffy, Peter Westmore
From this we see how work was consecrated to God in the Jewish faith and how a just God had a loving and particular concern for the poor the exploited the marginalised and the oppressed.
118 - Mar 2009 - Obituary: Fr Richard Neuhaus (1936-2009): bringing the Gospel to public life, Fr Raymond J. De Souza
Read by religious leaders both Catholic Protestant and Jewish influential figures in theology law and politics and bright students in universities all over First Things made widely available the thought of its editor in chief but also a whole cadre of established Catholic thinkers: Avery Dulles George Weigel Mary Ann Glendon Russell Hittinger as well as new voices such as the current editor Jody Bottum.
119 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Jewish conversions, Andrew Sholl
This was the only order in the Catholic Church which prayed for and worked towards the entry of the Jewish people into the Catholic Church.
120 - Dec 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Which Church did Jesus establish with his authority?, Frank Mobbs
I can join the Ebionites who insist on Jewish practices have a written Gospel of their own and celebrate the eucharist without wine.
121 - Dec 2008 - The decline of British Catholicism: the future?, John Haldane
Jewish teachers have long distinguished between hope and optimism recognising that their own history gives limited scope for the latter but that their survival as people of God has rested on the former as a response to a divine promise first made to Abraham.
122 - Oct 2008 - Eugenio Pacelli: The enduring legacy of Pope Pius XII: a 50th anniversary tribute, Fr John Walshe
National leaders and popular newspapers called him a fighter for peace and The Pope of Peace and many members of the Jewish community mourned the passing of one they credited with saving them from the horrors of the Nazis.
123 - Sep 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Priesthood and the sacraments: Divine help for eternal salvation, Br Barry Coldrey
In the vast majority of local house churches without an apostle there were groups of elders like similar bodies in the Jewish synagogue.
124 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
In another the Jewish Yeshiva University in New York City banned same-sex couples from its married student dormitory due to its religious principles.
125 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Faith: alive and well! - A pilgrim's progress, Catherine Sheehan
The panel of speakers included Archbishop Fitzgerald and members of the Jewish Muslim Hindu and Buddhist faiths.
126 - Aug 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
In addition texts are included of his talks in Cologne with Jewish and Muslim leaders and at an ecumenical meeting with Protestant representatives.
127 - Aug 2008 - Holy Land: Middle East Christians face a precarious future, Robin Harris
In Jerusalem age-old guarantees underpinning the Christian and Armenian quarters are being subverted by well- funded and well-advised Jewish fundamentalists.
128 - Jul 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Jesus: how do we know he was God?, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
However Jesus broke the reality of his divinity slowly and gently using a variety of names for himself which resonated with a Jewish people steeped in the Old Testament Scriptures.
129 - Feb 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 and Freedom Publishing
95 Edith Stein: a Biography Sr Waltraud Herbstrith A welcome reprint of the powerful and moving story of a Jewish woman who converted to Catholicism became a Carmelite nun and later died at Auschwitz.
130 - Nov 2007 - Latin is still the universal language of Liturgy, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
What a beautiful continuity in the Jewish community.
131 - Sep 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Jewish by birth he converted to Catholicism in 1940 at the age of 14 taking the name Jean Marie.
132 - Jul 2007 - Why truth and charity are inseparable, Alice von Hildebrand
A very orthodox Jewish colleague of mine defined ecumenism (as understood by most) as the meeting of an atheistic Jew with a fallen away Roman Catholic and their pleasant discovery that they have much in common.
133 - Jun 2007 - Books: EDITH STEIN, WOMAN OF PRAYER: Her Life and Ideals, by Joanne Mosley, Tim Cannon
The first part entitled The Search for the Truth provides an excellent overview of the life of Edith Stein from her Jewish childhood up until her death in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
134 - May 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
95 The Song of Bernadette Franz Werfel Originally written in 1941 by Czech-born Jewish poet and novelist Franz Werfel this spiritual classic became an international best seller and Academy Award winning movie.
135 - May 2007 - Books: The Heresy Of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and Its Enemy, by Martin Mosebach, Tim Cannon
Mosebachs account is compelling although not without misgivings and a tempered reading will undoubtedly inspire readers to commit themselves to a more devout participation in the Mass through a better understanding of a liturgy which draws deeply from the well of Jewish tradition and bears the marks of some two thousand years of faithful Christian devotion since Christ renewed Gods covenant with his people at the Last Supper.
136 - Apr 2007 - Catholicism and secularism in Britain: a test of strength on same-sex adoption, Joanna Bogle
Commentator Melanie Philips - who is Jewish - writing in the Daily Mail put it with greater vigour: This is but the latest move against religion by a culture that believes that only secularism provides freedom.
137 - Feb 2007 - Music: Johann Sebastian Bach and the heavenly choir, Fr Finbarr Flanagan
The secular Jewish philosopher Edith Stein had suffered doubts about the existence of God in the face of evil and tells in her autobiography of how she was freed from the pain of this doubt by attending a concert of Bachs music which brought her joy and restored her hope.
138 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte
In 1954 in Rome it was taken up again quite unexpectedly by an academic a scholar of Hebrew and Scripture Dr Sofia Cavalletti who was also a member of the Vatican Commission for Jewish/Christian relations.
139 - Sep 2006 - Books: Advancing the Culture of Death, by Peter Hung Manh Tran, Peter Westmore
All this changed with the emergence of Christianity which viewed human life itself as precious and having intrinsic value and followed the Jewish conception of man being made in the image and likeness of God.
140 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Pope Pius XII, Br Con Moloney CFC
For this he was acknowledged and thanked by Jewish leaders throughout the world after World War II.
141 - Jun 2006 - Books: The Defamation of Pius XII, by Ralph McInerny, Michael Daniel
However he realised that steps such as direct denunciations rather than saving Jewish lives only made the Nazis more eager to round and up deport them as happened in the Netherlands.
142 - Jun 2006 - Is dialogue possible between Christians and Muslims?, Cardinal George Pell
The claims of Muslim tolerance of Christian and Jewish minorities are largely mythical as the history of Islamic conquest and domination in the Middle East the Iberian peninsula and the Balkans makes abundantly clear.
143 - Mar 2006 - Books: Edith Stein Discovered: A Personal Portrait, by Pat Lyne OCDS, Michael Daniel
Available from AD Books) While most people are aware of the murder of six million Jews during World War II by the Nazis comparatively unknown are the Catholic victims of Jewish origin who were murdered because they were racially Jewish.
144 - Dec 2005 - Reflection: Journey of the Magi and the search for truth, Cardinal George Pell
Edith Stein was Jewish then atheist before becoming a Catholic then a Carmelite and finally a martyr.
145 - Dec 2005 - Books: The Cube and the Cathedral, by George Weigel, John Ballantyne
Christian heritage Weigel quotes a New York Jewish law professor Joseph H.
146 - Nov 2005 - Letters: Example needed, Betty Griffin
A short time ago I read this item (advertising a tour of a Jewish museum) in a parish bulletin: For synagogue tour please wear modest dress.
147 - Nov 2005 - Thomas More Centre: Fifty years from Shadowlands: Childhood memories of the world of C. S. Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Joy gave my father a paperback she had recently written using her maiden name Joy Davidman for she came from a Jewish background.
148 - Oct 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
Dalin Rabbi Dalin demolishes the recent vicious attacks on the reputation of Pius XII using the available evidence to demonstrate that this pontiff was a genuine friend and defender of the Jewish people.
149 - Oct 2005 - Letters: A treasured priest: Fr William Ross, Tom King
However on this occasion he ignited the faith and souls of all those who were moved to shed a tear of joy and delight by his Vicar of the day Fr William Ross the Scot who was raised in both a Christian and Jewish home environment.
150 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego
He bears greater resemblance to a Protestant minister or more particularly a Jewish rabbi - authoritative interpreters and guides in the application of holy laws.
151 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr
A new Jewish defence of Pius XIIs Holocaust role Just published in the United States and able to be ordered through AD Books is The Myth of Hitlers Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis by Rabbi David G.
152 - Sep 2005 - Cinema: The Church under Nazism: a sensitive film portrayal in 'The Ninth Day', Michael E. Daniel
The Nazis had retaliated to a protest by the Archbishop of Utrecht at the Nazi treatment of Jews in the Netherlands by rounding up 40000 Christians of Jewish origin.
153 - Aug 2005 - John Paul II: a Jewish appreciation
com website by Raphy Marciano Director of the Jewish Community Centre of Paris on 4 April 2005.
154 - Jul 2005 - Science: God, physics and Stephen Hawking, Fr Matthew Kirby
Not only did He reveal himself in actions and words to the Jews through their history He chose to come and live with us as the Jewish man Jesus - and then to die and rise again for us to give us a new kind of life.
155 - Jul 2005 - Living Stones: Church architecture: can a sense of the sacred be recovered?, Christian Xavier
From Jewish times before the coming of Christ until Vatican II laymen were not permitted on the sanctuary without good reason e.
156 - Jul 2005 - Year of Eucharist: The Eucharist: heart of our faith, Cardinal George Pell
But this ritual in turn was rooted in Jewish customs from the Old Testament.
157 - Nov 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Acknowledging that many people have responded positively to the film we still find it lamentable that Christian leaders so easily pass over its anti-Jewish character in favour of what they perceive to be its positive aspects reads the theologians statement.
158 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
Jesus was born a Jew and His teachings built on all the good news in the Jewish writings we call the Old Testament.
159 - Sep 2004 - Books: Interrupted Journeys: Young Refugees from Hitler's Reich, by Alan Gill, Michael Gilchrist
Most but not all were Jewish and it is those who finally settled in Australia after often hair-raising adventures and hardships that are the focus of Gills meticulous research.
160 - Aug 2004 - Bioethics: Embryo stem-cell research: time for a moral benchmark, Christopher Pyne MP
To them I say: we can best understand lifes sanctity by considering its negation and in recent history there is one defining example the Holocaust or as Jewish people call it the Shoa.
161 - Jun 2004 - Letters: The Passion - Suffering (letter), Dr Arnold Jago
Some critics of the film The Passion of the Christ call it anti-Semitic saying it blames the death of Christ on the Jewish race alone.
162 - Jun 2004 - Editorial: Pentecost: As it was in the beginning ..., Michael Gilchrist
The Acts reference to Pentecost is in fact to the Jewish harvest festival observed on the fiftieth day from the second day of Passover - the expression Pentecost meaning fiftieth day.
163 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
We are not to blame all the Jewish people of Jesus own time for his death he said.
164 - Apr 2004 - Film Review: Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ': a contemporary masterpiece, David Schütz
He is also clearly Jewish.
165 - Mar 2004 - USA: Pro-abortion politicians put on notice, AD2000
While the Ten Commandments forbid stealing no one he said would believe that laws against theft are an imposition of the Jewish or Christian religions.
166 - Sep 2003 - Homosexual conduct: how Gospel teaching can be distorted, Bill Muehlenberg
Jesus as a good Jew of his day shared the common Jewish understanding of homosexuality which was to utterly oppose it.
167 - Jul 2003 - Editorial: The pivotal roles of Saints Peter and Paul, Michael Gilchrist
The all-too-human Saint Peter ensured Christianitys roots were anchored firmly in the Jewish Old Testament tradition.
168 - Jun 2003 - Reflection: Church scandals: focus on the message, not just the messengers, Fr Kevin Brannelly
As Matthews community still considered itself Jewish they found it hard to understand their fellow Jews lack of faith in Jesus as Messiah.
169 - Mar 2003 - New Age ideas: how Catholics should respond, Fr Peter Joseph
Read Acts 19:13-17 where Jewish exorcists were overpowered by the demon when they tried to use the name of Jesus without authority.
170 - Mar 2003 - Liturgy: The Mass is the same sacrifice as the Cross, Msgr. Peter J. Elliott
Later in the light of his Resurrection the first Christians understood that this self-immolation of a young Jewish teacher was Gods perfect act of divine and human atonement for the sins of the whole world.
171 - Mar 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
While sentiment may argue on the side of allowing such research the Archbishop warned that it was sentiment - or rather the lack of it - which enabled the Nazi regime to decide on and carry through the horrific policy of liquidation of the Jewish people.
172 - Feb 2003 - Books: How To Win The Culture War, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
The longest-lasting societies have been the most moralistic be they Jewish Confucian Islamic or Roman.
173 - Feb 2003 - 'Healing the family tree': New Age under the guise of religion (Part One), Fr Peter Joseph
The Apostles too at one time had the common Jewish notion that every affliction could be traced to a specific sin.
174 - Feb 2003 - Liturgy: The sacrifice of the Mass: the Eucharistic words of Christ, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
It was instituted by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper a sacred Jewish Passover meal based on eating a sacrificed lamb and unleavened bread.
175 - Oct 2002 - Books: Completed Jew, by Andrew Sholl, Michael Casanova
Author of Completed Jew Andrew Sholl born in Yugoslavia of a Jewish family and baptised a Catholic providentially escaped from the Nazi holocaust.
176 - Apr 2002 - A fresh way for children to learn the faith - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Anne Delsorte
Called the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS) it originated in Rome in 1954 with Dr Sofia Cavaletti a Hebrew and Scripture scholar and member of the Vatican Commission for Jewish/Christian Relations and her colleague Professor Gianna Gobbi a Montessori educator.
177 - Mar 2002 - Thoughts of a recent convert to Catholicism, Rett Peaden
This is what is meant by the three kings or astrologers traditionally representing the continents of Africa Europe and Asia bearing tribute to the seemingly simple Jewish child who is destined for greatness.
178 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Islam, Andrew Sholl
Thus the Jewish people usually did well in Islamic countries as against almost 2000 years of persecution at the hands of so-called Christians who ought to have known better.
179 - Feb 2002 - Books: 'Meaninglessness' and today's Western culture, Archbishop George Pell
Hitler was an atheist who considered conscience a Jewish blemish like circumcision!
180 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Desire Of The Everlasting Hills' by Thomas Cahill, Michael Daniel
Desire of the Everlasting Hills is the third in the Hinges of History series by Thomas Cahill and is a sequel to his best-selling The Gifts of Jews which explored the influence Jewish culture and thought has had upon civilisation.
181 - Dec 2001 - St Vitus Cathedral, Prague, and Europe's Christian heritage, Stephen W. Carson
He and his wife having lost relatives in the mass murders by the National Socialists because of being Jewish then were tortured and imprisoned for many years by the Romanian Communist regime for preaching Yshua (Jesus) as the Messiah.
182 - Dec 2001 - Church leaders say 'No human cloning', AD2000 Report
These five churchmen were joined by about 80 other leaders of all the main Christian Churches including Anglicans Catholics Uniting Church leaders Lutherans Presbyterians Methodists Assemblies of God Churches of Christ Jewish Rabbis an Islamic iman medical practitioners politicians leaders of pro-life organisations and others in signing a joint statement titled No Human Cloning - an open letter to Australias Federal State and Territory Governments.
183 - Nov 2001 - Books: 'The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity', Carsten Theide, Anthony Cappello
New book on Dead Sea Scrolls lends support to historicity of the Gospels THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS and the Jewish Origins of Christianity by Carsten Peter Theide (Lion Paperback 2000 256pp $24.
184 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'The Holocaust, Never To Be Forgotten', Avery Dulles SJ, Rabbi Leon Klenicki, Anthony Cappello
The twelve-page document which was presented by Cardinal Edward Cassidy dealt with matters related to the Jewish Holocaust.
185 - Sep 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Edith Stein was born into a devout Jewish family in Breslau Germany (now Wroclaw Poland) in 1891.
186 - Jun 2001 - Books: The Turin Shroud: Past, Present and Future, International Scientific Symposium, Anthony Cappello
They were he said circulated in Jewish markets and given in small change.
187 - May 2001 - Reflection: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit', Fr Ian Falconer SJ
If the Gospels of Matthew and Mark were written as early Christian writers tell us they were for Hebrew-speaking Jewish Christians they had to be and were quickly translated into Greek for the sake of the thousands of Gentiles pouring into the Church who would not have known Hebrew.
188 - May 2001 - Books: 'Great Christian Prayers' by Stephen Redmond SJ, Peter Westmore
are taken from the Jewish book of rabbinic instruction emphasising the Jewish foundations of Christianity.
189 - Apr 2001 - Letters: Dress code (letter), Raymond de Souza
While I congratulate the Jewish organisers of the event for not succumbing to the temptation of human respect and standing by their dress code - Catholic visitors could take it or leave it - I wonder about the magnitude of the furore that any parish priest would cause if he dared suggest a similar dress code for his parishioners!
190 - Apr 2001 - How to avoid banal, superficial liturgies, Bishop Kevin Manning
She operated on the form of the Jewish synagogue service which is extremely modest from the point of view of ritual to the celebration of Eucharist the great prayer of thanksgiving.
191 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
In The Jews Saved by Pius XII just published in Italy journalist Antonio Gaspari gathers numerous testimonies in favour of Pius XII and the Catholic Church expressed by founders of the state of Israel leaders of Jewish associations and survivors of concentration camps.
192 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'Pope Pius XII: Architect For Peace' by Margherita Marchione, Michael Daniel
Hitherto Pius was lauded by Jewish and other leaders for his role in saving lives exemplified by the numerous tributes published at the time of Piuss death in 1958 a mere five years before the release of The Deputy.
193 - Dec 2000 - Books: 'Biblical Holy Places: An Illustrated Guide' by Rivka Gonen, Catherine Sheehan
The sites are from both the New and the Old Testaments and hence some are Jewish and Islamic as well as Christian.
194 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Remembrance services (letter), Richard Grant
A lead in this regard has been given by the Jewish community which last year hosted Victorias first Jewish memorial service to recognise babies who have died before or shortly after birth.
195 - Nov 2000 - Science and Christianity: can they co-exist in the new millennium?, Stephen Hitchings
The fact is that virtually all the major non-Christian belief systems (apart from the Jewish) have been mired down by doctrines of endlessly recurring cycles from the Hindu calendar with its 311-trillion-year cycles to the system of the Aztecs who expected the end of the world every 52 years and rejoiced every time they were granted another 52 years reprieve.
196 - Jul 2000 - Reflection: St John the Baptist, the Precursor (Feast Day, 24 June), Br Christian Moe FSC
John the Baptist is accorded parallel prominence and there is significant emphasis on his mission his preaching and his untimely death in the work of the contemporary Jewish historian Flavius Josephus which unfortunately we cannot enlarge on here.
197 - Jul 2000 - US historian criticises 'Hitler's Pope' book
Regarding Pius XIIs work with European Jews Doorhy pointed to the 80 percent survival rate in Italy as far and away the highest rate in any of the Nazi occupied countries and the fact that the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust published in 1990 in Tel Aviv and written mostly by Jewish scholars credits Pope Pius XII with saving no fewer than half the Jews of Rome during the Nazi occupation.
198 - May 2000 - How the future John Paul II saved a Jewish girl's life, Zenit News Service
Thursday 23 March 2000 was an unforgettable day for Edith Zirer a Jewish woman who was born in Poland but who has lived in Haifa for decades.
199 - May 2000 - Understanding the Incarnation, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
He may well have been influenced by Jewish platonic philosophy from Alexandria the school of Philo.
200 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
In a book entitled Fascism the Church and the Catholic Movement in Italy: 1922-1943 published by the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy for Sciences the author states that Pius XIIs attitude towards Nazism was dictated by prudence and that the Vatican was not subject to an anti-Jewish policy.
201 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
Could it be that many Jewish priests were interested in even convinced by the claims of this new movement within Judaism but were holding back because they were not sure what they would do if they converted or how it would affect their lives?
202 - Apr 2000 - Eichmann's diary reveals Catholic Church's assistance to Jews, Zenit News Service
Eichmann a Nazi SS lieutenant colonel was executed in 1962 in Israel for crimes against the Jewish people and against humanity.
203 - Dec 1999 - The Holy City: recent impressions of old and new Jerusalem, Desmond Piggin
In 1917 Arthur Balfour then British Foreign Secretary wrote to Lord Rothschild: His Majestys Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people .
204 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Life is Beautiful was the title of an unusual film about a Jewish father who went to the extermination camp with his young son.
205 - Oct 1999 - Pope Pius XII's efforts to avert World War II, Zenit News Service
The release this October of Hitlers Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwall signals yet another campaign against Pope Pius XII over his role during World War II and in particular his alleged silence and inaction over the Jewish Holocaust.
206 - May 1999 - Vatican launch of book highlights Pius XII's World War II role in saving Jews, Zenit News Service
According to Cardinal Edward Cassidy President of the Pontifical Commission for Relations with Judaism: The document We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah published by the Holy See on 12 March recalls that at the end of World War II Jewish communities and personalities expressed their gratitude for what Pius XII and his representatives did to save the lives of thousands of Jews.
207 - Apr 1999 - Why modern Biblical scholarship affirms the Resurrection, Richard Dunstan
And Jewish ideas of a general resurrection involved the body; disciples preaching that Jesus was risen could have been refuted by producing his body if it had in fact still been in the tomb.
208 - Mar 1999 - Reflection: Being a disciple of Christ: no soft option, Archbishop George Pell
Josephus tells us that 1100000 persons were killed; that at the subsequent triumph in Rome 97000 Jewish slaves were paraded through the capital of the Empire and that in the fighting 6000 refugees perished in the portico of the Temple deluded by a false prophet to await the final revelation there.
209 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik
I baptised one elderly Jewish lady who was well protected by her Irish-looking face.
210 - Oct 1998 - Teresa-Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein): new Carmelite Saint, Tracey Rowland
For those unfamiliar with her story she was born on the Jewish Feast of Yom Kippur (October 12) in 1891.
211 - Jun 1998 - John Henry Newman on liturgical tradition, Cardinal John Henry Newman
It was on this account that he was circumcised in order that is to show that he did not renounce the religion of Abraham to whom God gave circumcision or of Moses by whom it was embodied in the Jewish Law.
212 - Sep 1996 - Fr Joseph Fessio in Australia: Principles of genuine liturgical reform, Michael Gilchrist
Jewish roots It is he said difficult to see how the Church can be faithful to the Council without some effort to restore chant.
213 - Mar 1996 - Editorial: The problem is belief, B.A. Santamaria
The noted Jewish Biblical scholar Geza Vermes who retired from Oxfords Oriental Institute some time ago regards the Dead Sea Scrolls (discovered in 1947 in Qumran on the Dead Sea) as the greatest manuscript find of modern times.
214 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
Edith Stein beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987 was a Jewish convert to Catholicism and one of the better-known victims of the World War II Nazi Holocaust.
215 - Apr 1995 - Reflection: The Resurrection: why the four Gospel accounts 'add up', Bishop David Silk (Anglican Bishop of Ballarat)
Inside the tomb was the body of a Jewish teacher crucified on the orders of the Roman Governor and certified dead.
216 - Aug 1994 - Not all religious are dissenters: Christian Brother writes, Br John B. Stephenson CFC
(a) It was St Peter who first admitted not just Jewish converts in the person of Cornelius with his family and friends (Acts 10:47-48).
217 - Aug 1994 - Religious orders, associations refuse to accept 'definitive' Papal teaching
You will recall that in the face of the opposition of the first Pope St Peter and the more reactionary elements in the early Church St Paul requested that Gentile and pagan and not just Jewish converts should be admitted to the ranks of Christians.
218 - Jul 1994 - The revolt of the Religious Orders - Cardinal Ratzinger's statement
Peter and the more reactionary elements in the early Church St Paul requested that gentile and pagan and not just Jewish converts should be admitted to the ranks of Christians the letter said.
219 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
The contemporary Jewish authority Geza Vermes who recently retired as Director of Oxfords Oriental Institute in his work Jesus the Man repeats the ancient proposition that Christ certainly did exist but that He was not God.
220 - Nov 1993 - In the aftermath of 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Few morally serious persons whether Christian Jewish or other would find much to object to in the proposition that a religion must propagate and safeguard those broad heads of conduct.
221 - Jun 1990 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century', Fr John Parsons
His confidence is based on the application to traditional Catholicism of Our Lords words about the Jewish law: lota unum non praeterebit - Not one jot will pass away until all is accomplished.
222 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
Catholicism is a development of Jewish monotheism which sees Christ as the promised Messiah and the Son of God.