Why does the Catholic Church teach that the Jews don't have to convert to be saved?
What happened to the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church that the Old Covenant ceased with the coming of Christ and the promulgation of the Gospel? The Vatican currently publishes books that teach that the Jews can live and believe as if Christ had not come. The Catholic Church now teaches that the Old Covenant is valid. Both John Paul II and Benedict XVI have made trips to Jewish synagogues and have taken active part in Jewish worship. Even cardinals and bishops of the Catholic Church have frequently participated in Jewish religious services and have repeatedly teach and proclaim that Jews do not need conversion and that their covenant is valid. Before the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the Catholic Church has always taught since it's founding, that the Old Covenant ceased with the coming of Christ and the promulgation of the Gospel and is no longer valid.
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Only the evangelicals are still pushing that BS today. Catholics have a lot more to worry about nowadays.
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It's probably because the're afraid that the Jews will run them out of business. The Jews will take all of their secret Jew gold and buy stock in god, so that their religion is the right one.
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W R O N G http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/21/us-jews-protest-catholic-_n_264926.html
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The Church does not teach against the conversion of Jews. The teaching remains the same. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 674 The glorious Messiah's coming is suspended at every moment of history until his recognition by "all Israel", for "a hardening has come upon part of Israel" in their "unbelief" toward Jesus.569 St. Peter says to the Jews of Jerusalem after Pentecost: "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old."570 St. Paul echoes him: "For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?"571 The "full inclusion" of the Jews in the Messiah's salvation, in the wake of "the full number of the Gentiles",572 will enable the People of God to achieve "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ", in which "God may be all in all".573 God bless! In Christ Fr. Joseph
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