Rehmat
02-08-2008, 04:14 PM
While late Pope John Paul II (whose mother, reportedly was a Polish Jew) and the current Pope are very friendly to Jewish communities in the West and Israel – many Christian Saints and Pope have been quite anti-Jewish in the past. For example:
The “Witness Doctrine”, as outlined by St. Augustine in the 4th century, states that Jews are “wicked, evil, perverse and damned forever BUT God wants them to survive because their dispersion (rejection) serves as testimony to the divine right of Christianity”.
Pope Gregory I issued the “Sicut Judeis” bull - “Just as, therefore, license ought not be granted to the Jews to presume to do in their synagogues more than law permits them, just so ought they not to suffer curtailment in those (privileges) which have been conceded them.”
Between 1198 CE and 1254 CE, the “Sicut Judeis” bull was issued five times, and eleven other specific protective bulls were issued – while between 1254CE to 1305 CE the bull was again issued five times, but in the fourteenth century it was issued only twice.
Gregory IX was outraged when he learned of Talmud’s hatred against Christ, his mother Mary and the Christians at large - and ordered an immediate seizure of copies of the Talmud everywhere.
Pope Alexander III was the first to hire a Jew, Yehiel, his household finances. It is possible that he exerted some influence on the pope.
Pope Paul IV issued his “Papal Bull” in 1555 CE – ordering Jews to be confined to Jewish quarters; Jews cannot own property; cannot have more than one Synagogue in a particular location and the additional Synagogues must be destroyed; no Christian will serve Jews in any field of work; Christians are not allowed to hire Jews, and both Jewish men and women are respectively required and bound to wear in full view a hat or some obvious marking, both to be blue in color, in such a way that they may not be concealed or hidden. (“Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry”, by Kenneth R. Stow)
Rev. Martin Luther, the father of Protest Church, wrote in “On the Jews and their lies”, (1543) - "My advice... is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire."
List of Papal Bulls from a Jewish source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_papal_bulls
The “Witness Doctrine”, as outlined by St. Augustine in the 4th century, states that Jews are “wicked, evil, perverse and damned forever BUT God wants them to survive because their dispersion (rejection) serves as testimony to the divine right of Christianity”.
Pope Gregory I issued the “Sicut Judeis” bull - “Just as, therefore, license ought not be granted to the Jews to presume to do in their synagogues more than law permits them, just so ought they not to suffer curtailment in those (privileges) which have been conceded them.”
Between 1198 CE and 1254 CE, the “Sicut Judeis” bull was issued five times, and eleven other specific protective bulls were issued – while between 1254CE to 1305 CE the bull was again issued five times, but in the fourteenth century it was issued only twice.
Gregory IX was outraged when he learned of Talmud’s hatred against Christ, his mother Mary and the Christians at large - and ordered an immediate seizure of copies of the Talmud everywhere.
Pope Alexander III was the first to hire a Jew, Yehiel, his household finances. It is possible that he exerted some influence on the pope.
Pope Paul IV issued his “Papal Bull” in 1555 CE – ordering Jews to be confined to Jewish quarters; Jews cannot own property; cannot have more than one Synagogue in a particular location and the additional Synagogues must be destroyed; no Christian will serve Jews in any field of work; Christians are not allowed to hire Jews, and both Jewish men and women are respectively required and bound to wear in full view a hat or some obvious marking, both to be blue in color, in such a way that they may not be concealed or hidden. (“Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry”, by Kenneth R. Stow)
Rev. Martin Luther, the father of Protest Church, wrote in “On the Jews and their lies”, (1543) - "My advice... is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire."
List of Papal Bulls from a Jewish source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_papal_bulls