Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: i successi di Ratzinger

E' riuscito a fare arrabbiare persino David Rosen, il rabbino filo-
cattolico e pro-life. Si vede che Ratzinger avra' fatto le sue scelte
e preferisce avere buone relazioni con uno scheramento che comprende
il vescovo negazionista Williamson.
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/jews-worried-by-vatican-g_n_966925.html
 
 
Jews Worried By Vatican Gesture To Traditionalists
 
VATICAN CITY — Some Jewish groups voiced concern Friday that the
Vatican might be calling into question more than 40 years of progress
in Catholic-Jewish relations by reaching out to a group of breakaway
traditionalist Catholics that includes a Holocaust-denying bishop.
 
The Vatican has been working for years to bring the breakaway Society
of St. Pius X back into its fold, and this week told its members they
must accept some core church teachings if they want to be fully
reintegrated into the church. But the Holy See said some expressions
contained in documents from the Second Vatican Council could be left
open for "legitimate discussion."
 
The 1962-65 Vatican II meetings brought modernizing reforms to the
Catholic Church, including outreach to Jews and introduction of the
Mass in the vernacular rather than Latin. The Swiss-based Society of
St. Pius X was formed in 1969, opposed to many of Vatican II's
reforms.
 
The Vatican refused to say which core teachings the society must
accept to be reintegrated, and which elements of Vatican II documents
could be left open for discussion.
 
A key Vatican II document, Nostra Aetate, revolutionized the Catholic
Church's relations with Jews by declaring that Christ's death couldn't
be attributed to Jews as a whole. Other Vatican II teachings to which
the society objects concern religious freedom and ecumenical
relations.
 
The uncertainty over what is being required of the society provoked
unease among some Jewish groups, which issued veiled warnings Friday
about the possible impact on Vatican-Jewish relations were Nostra
Aetate and other Vatican II teachings to be now considered ripe for
discussion.
 
Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League's U.S. director, said he
was confident that Pope Benedict XVI would require the society to
accept the church's "positive teachings" about Jews before being fully
reconciled with the church.
 
"It would be unthinkable for the Vatican to allow a Catholic breakaway
sect that includes a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson, to
be reintegrated into the church while still being allowed to promote
anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism," he said in a statement.
 
Elan Steinberg of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and
their Descendants, said there would be "catastrophic effects" on
Catholic-Jewish relations if the Vatican didn't require the society to
accept the document.
 
"We mustn't allow the moral imperative of Catholic-Jewish amity to
fall victim to a policy of appeasement or blithe expediency," he said
in a statement.
 
Even Rabbi David Rosen, who heads the American Jewish Committee's
interreligious affairs office and is a veteran of Catholic-Jewish
dialogue, said he was worried about the Vatican's gesture and awaited
further clarification.
 
"If 'Nostra Aetate' and 'Lumen Gentium' (another Vatican II document)
are not considered fundamental doctrines of the Church, and it is
possible to question them without challenging the authority of the
church, then we (and not just Jewish-Catholic relations) are in for a
very rough ride ahead," he said in an email.
 
The society's superior, Bishop Bernard Fellay, has said he would study
the two-page document of core church teachings handed over to him by
the Vatican and respond.
 
The German-born Benedict has worked for two decades, as pope and as
cardinal, to bring the group back into the Vatican's fold, eager to
prevent further schism and the expansion of a parallel church.
 
Benedict, who has won praise from Jews for his decades of outreach,
nevertheless provoked outrage in 2009 when he lifted the
excommunication of Williamson, who denied gas chambers were used
during the Holocaust. Williamson, Fellay and three other bishops were
excommunicated in 1988 after the society's founder consecrated them
without papal consent.
 
The society has six seminaries, three universities and 70 primary and
secondary schools around the globe. Aside from the four bishops, it
boasts more than 550 priests and 200 seminarians.

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