Antipope John Paul II’s unbelievable message in commemoration of the Synagogue

Heresy of the Week, Week of 6/18/04

Antipope John Paul II, Message to Chief Rabbi of Rome, May 23, 2004: “To the most distinguished Dr. Riccardo Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of Rome.  Shalom!  With deep joy I join the Jewish Community of Rome which is celebrating the centenary [100th anniversary] of the Great Synagogue in Rome, a symbol and a reminder of the millennial presence in this city of the people of the Covenant of Sinai.  For more than 2000 years your community has been an integral part of life in the city; it can boast of being the most ancient Jewish community in Western Europe and of having played an important role in spreading Judaism on this Continent.  Today’s commemoration, therefore, acquires a special significance… Since I am unable to attend in person, I have asked my Vicar General Camillo Ruini, to represent me; he is accompanied by Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Holy See’s Commission for Relations with the Jews.  They formally express my desire to be with you this day. “In offering you my respectful greeting, distinguished Dr. Riccardo Di Segni, I extend my cordial thoughts to all the Members of the Community, to their President, Mr. Leone Elio Paserman, and to all who are gathered to witness once again to the importance and vigor of the religious patrimony that is celebrated every Saturday in the Great Synagogue of Rome… Today’s celebration, in whose joy we all readily join, recalls the first century of this majestic Synagogue.  It stands on the banks of the Tiber, witnessing with the harmony of its architectural lines to faith and to praise of the Almighty.  The Christian Community of Rome, through the Successor of Peter, joins you in thanking the Lord for this happy occasion [the 100th anniversary of the Synagogue!].  As I said during the Visit I mentioned, we greet you as our ‘beloved brothers’ in the faith of Abraham, our Patriarch… you continue to be the first-born people of the Covenant (Liturgy of Good Friday, General Intercessions, For the Jewish People)… [These friendly relations] saw us united in commemorating the victims of the Shoah [deceased Jews who did not accept Christ], especially those who were wrenched from their families and from your beloved Jewish Community in Rome in October 1943 and interned in Auschwitz.  May their memory be blessed and induce us to work as brothers and sisters… …the Church has not hesitated to express deep sorrow at the ‘failures of her sons and daughters in every age’ and, in an act of repentance, has asked forgiveness for their responsibility connected in any way with the scourges of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism… Today… we are addressing a fervent prayer to the Eternal One, to the God of Shalom, so that enmity and hatred may no longer overpower those who turn to our father, Abraham – Jews, Christians and Muslims… “Our meeting today is, as it were, in preparation for your imminent solemnity of Shavu’ot and of our Pentecost which proclaim the fullness of our respective paschal celebrations.  May these feasts see us united in praying David’s paschal Hallel.” (L’Osservatore Romano, June 2, 2004, p. 7.)

Comment:  Yes, John Paul II is a Catholic alright; sure, he’s a Catholic, if you believe that Jesus Christ = Antichrist. 1) He joins the Jewish community in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Synagogue – apostasy. 2) He says this Jewish community can boast of being the most ancient Synagogue in Western Europe and of having spread Judaism – apostasy. 3) He formally expresses his desire that he could have been with them, in the Synagogue, commemorating it – apostasy. 4) He praises the importance and the vigor of the religion that is celebrated every Saturday in Rome – apostasy.  In fact, the word “vigor” means “Active physical strength or energy; flourishing physical condition, vitality; mental or moral strength, force or energy.”  Thus, he is telling them again that their Covenant with God is valid, flourishing, in force. 5) He joins again in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the “majestic Synagogue” – apostasy. 6) On behalf of the entire Christian Community in Rome, as “successor of St. Peter,” he formally thanks the Lord for the 100 years of the Synagogue! – apostasy! 7) He greets the Jews as beloved brothers of the faith of Abraham, which is another total denial of Christ, as scripture teaches that only those who are of Christ have the faith of Abraham.

Galatians 3:14- "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus: that we may receive the promise of the spirit by faith.” Galatians 3:29- “And if you be Christ’s; then you are the seed of Abraham.” Pope St. Gregory the Great (+ c. 590): “… if you be Christ’s then you are the seed of Abraham (Gal. 3:29).  If we because of our faith in Christ are deemed children of Abraham, the Jews therefore because of their perfidy have ceased to be His seed.” (Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers, Vol. 1., p. 92) Pope St. Leo the Great, Dogmatic Letter to Flavian (449), read at Council of Chalcedon (451), ex cathedra: “The promises were spoken to Abraham and his seed.  He does not say “to his seeds” – as if referring to multiplicity – but to a single one, ‘and to thy seed,’ which is Christ (Gal. 3:16).” (Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Vol. 1, p. 78.)

8)  He states that the Jews “continue to be the first-born people of the Covenant,” quoting the Good Friday prayer of the Novus Ordo Missae, which prays that the Jews “continue” in faithfulness to God’s Covenant.  Thus, again, Antipope John Paul II is blatantly teaching that the Jews’ Covenant with God is still valid – formal heresy and formal apostasy! 9) He commemorates those who died as Jews and says that their memory should be blessed – heresy. 10) On behalf of “the Church,” he repents for any anti-Judaism and seeks for their forgiveness – apostasy.  This would include the Church’s anti-Jewish dogma that Jews who die without conversion to Catholicism go to hell, and therefore need to be converted and saved.  He is just mocking Our Lord and the Church. 11) He again says that Jews, Muslims and Christians all have Abraham as their spiritual father – apostasy and total rejection of Christ. I don’t know what else to say.  This speech ranks right near the top of his blasphemies and heresies. Antipope John Paul II is totally in favor of the denial of Christ; he could not more clearly teach that the Old Covenant is still valid; he totally denies Jesus Christ and the Catholic Faith; he is putting his apostasy right in our face.  Those who accept this man as a Catholic, while aware of these facts, and refuse to denounce him as an apostate, are truly Antichrists.

1 John 2:22 – “Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ?  He is antichrist, who denieth the Father, and the Son.” Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews … cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives…” Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, the Mosaic law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments… after our Lord’s coming… ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began..  All, therefore, who after that time (the promulgation of the Gospel) observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, the holy Roman Church declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation.”

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