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Blame game.(Letter to the Editor)
While on the whole I found Ramesh Ponnuru's review of The Passion in the March 8 issue interesting and stimulating, one of Mr. Ponnuru's comments is historically unfounded.
He writes: "Even some recent defenses of the Catholic Church have made it sound as though the idea that all of us, and not just 'the Jews,' are to blame was an innovation of the 1960s. Actually it was always the Church's teaching, although the Second Vatican Council may have revived and deepened it."
But this was not always the position of the Church. The earliest instance we can point to of the "we all killed Jesus claim" is that of Peter Abelard in the early 12th century, and it does not re-occur with any significance until Francis of Assisi in the 13th. Moreover, these two dissidents hardly spoke for the Church at large: Rome's position toward the Jews from Augustine to the Council of Trent varied considerably. Pope Gregory the Great, for example, made the anniversary of the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D., which was widely ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Blame game.(Letter to the Editor)