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Sunday, November 10, 2013

...it is impossible for a Christian to take part in Antisemitism.



Pope Pius XI at Sistine Chapel Mass
"Mark well that in the Catholic Mass, Abraham is our Patriarch and forefather. Antisemitism is incompatible with the lofty thought which that fact expresses. It is a movement with which we Christians can have nothing to do. No, no, I say to you it is impossible for a Christian to take part in Antisemitism. It is inadmissible. Through Christ and in Christ we are the spiritual progeny of Abraham. Spiritually, we [Christians] are all Semites."
Pope Pius XI
6 September 1938




What weight of ancient witness can prevail / If private judgement hold the public scale? -Dryden

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