Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Blame the Jews

http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/dershowitz/entry/catholic_church_accused_of_covering
he Catholic church, which does so much good, has declared anti-Semitism
to be a sin, but there are some within the hierarchy who always know the
source of the Church's problems: It's "the Jews."
Consider the following report in The New York Times of April 3, 2010:
     Last week, the center-left daily newspaper LA Republica wrote,
without attribution, that certain Catholic circles believed the
criticism of the church stemmed from a New York 'Jewish Lobby.'"
Ah, the power of the New York Jewish Lobby, extending to rural Ireland,
southern Germany, Boulder Junction, Wisconsin and the archbishop of
Canterbury!
Despite the lack of attribution in the newspaper article, the quote has
credibility because it echoes statements made by a leading member of
this "blame the Jews" circle as far back as May of 2002. That man is
Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Meridiaga, who is the archbishop of
Honduras. Cardinal Rodriguez, who was in the running for Pope Benedict's
job and who remains a leading candidate to replace him, is an overt
anti-Semite and not ashamed of it. For years, he has been telling anyone
willing to listen that "the Jews" are to blame for the scandal
surrounding the sexual misconduct of priests toward young parishioners!
But even for this bigot in a red hat, it must have been a stretch to
blame the Jews for a world-wide problem that has plagued the Vatican for
decades. Have no fear. Rodriguez has figured out a way to blame the Jews
that is about as compelling as the Church's historic efforts to blame
the Jews for the Black Plague, the poisoning of wells and the murder of
Christian children to use their blood for Passover matza.
Here is his "logic." He begins by asserting that the Vatican is
anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian. It follows, therefore, that "the Jews"
had to get even with the Catholic Church, while at the same time
deflecting attention away from Israeli injustices against the
Palestinians. The Jews managed to do this by arranging for the media,
which they of course control, to give disproportionate attention to the
Vatican sex scandal. Listen to Rodriguez's own words:
     It certainly makes me think that in a moment in which all the
attention of the mass media was focused on the Middle East, all the many
injustices done against the Palestinian people, the print media and the
TV in the United States became obsessed with sexual scandals that
happened 40 years ago, 30 years ago. Why? I think it's also for these
motives: What is the church that has received Arafat the most times and
has most often confirmed the necessity of the creation of a Palestinian
state? What is the church that does not accept that Jerusalem should be
the indivisible capital of the State of Israel, but that it should be
the capital of the three great monotheistic religions?"
Rodriguez then goes on to compare the Jewish-controlled media with
"Hitler," because they are "protagonists of what I do not hesitate to
define as a persecution against the Church."
When asked whether he wanted to reconsider his attack, Rodriguez
replied: "I don't repent; sometimes it is necessary to shake things up."
The prime media culprit is, according to Rodriguez, The Boston Globe,
which has won numerous journalistic awards for its exposure of the sex
scandal and cover-up. The Globe, you see, is owned by the New York
Times, which is controlled by the Sulzbergers, which was once a Jewish
family. Hence the Jewish conspiracy.  Oh, these clever Jews!
One problem with this cockamamie theory is that the Jewish community of
Boston was very close to, and admiring of, Cardinal Bernard Law, who
presided over the archdiocese during the scandal. Law had built bridges
between the Catholic and Jewish communities of Boston, and when the
scandal was exposed by the very un-Jewish Globe the Jewish community
remained largely supportive of Law.
None of the leading media critics, lawyers or politicians who railed
against the church was Jewish. Most were Catholic. But that didn't
matter to the bigoted cardinal, who along with other classic
anti-Semites believes that if there is a problem "the Jews" must be to
blame for it.
As the writer James Carrol, himself a Catholic, has characterized
Rodriguez's "crackpot" mindset: "When the church has a problem here is
the oldest move of all - blame the Jews."
Nor is Rodriguez the only current cardinal afflicted with such bigotry.
Cardinal Joseph Glemp, the primate of Poland, has blamed the Jews for
Polish communism, alcoholism and collaboration with Hitler. He also
accused Jews of trying to kill nuns. Other high-ranking priests,
especially in Central America and Poland, have leveled similar
anti-Semitic accusations against the Jews and Israel.
These blood libels demonstrate that the Vatican still has a problem with
anti-Semitism at the top levels of its hierarchy. How can serial sinners
like Cardinals Rodriguez and Glemp retain their statures as princes of
the Church while preaching blood libels against the Jews?
Most recently a senior Vatican priest, speaking in the presence of the
Pope, likened the criticism of the Vatican over pedophilia to "the more
shameful aspects of anti-Semitism." Wait a minute! Does this mean that
the Jews were to blame for anti-Semitism, as the Catholic church is to
blame for not having done enough to prevent recurring abuses by known
pedophilic priests in Ireland, Germany and the United States?
No, says Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the priest who offered the
comparison. He was criticizing "the use of stereotypes, the passing from
personal responsibility and guilt to a collective guilt..." Oh, now I
get it: some individual Jews really were guilty of murdering Christian
babies for their blood, poisoning their wells and causing the Black
Plague. The problem was in "the passing from personal responsibility and
guilt" for these unspeakable crimes to "collective guilt."
It is true that there is stereotyping and anti-Catholic bigotry in some
of the criticism of the Pope for conduct of which he's probably unaware.
It is also true that sexual abuse by those in positions of authority is
widespread in many religious and secular institutions, and the focus on
the Catholic church seems unfair. But the Catholic church is the most
powerful religious institution in the world, and much of the criticism
comes from disappointed Catholics.
Pope Benedict is a good man who has generally continued the good work of
his two predecessors toward the Jews, and has done far more than his
predecessors to deal with the problem of sexual abuse. But the time has
come, indeed is long overdue, for Pope Benedict to speak out forcefully
and to take firm action against the those who are sullying his papacy
and wounding the moral authority of his Church, whether they be priests
who sinned, bishops who covered up their sins or cardinals who can't see
beyond "the Jews" in seeking to pinpoint blame for their sins.

 
http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/dershowitz/entry/catholic_church_accused_.
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