Hopeless

More confused "traditional Catholic" journalism related to Orthodox Judaic rabbis; relativizing traditional Catholic prayers for conversion of Judaic souls with Judaic racist, "prayers" of self-glorification and derision of non-"Jews"; getting played by the dialectic between foaming-at-the-mouth Foxman and "reasonable" Rabbi Neusner ...

http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/archive-2007-0831-ecumenical_dialogue.htm

Rabbi Neusner posits a "fair" comparison between a Catholic prayer for the souls of Judaics and a racist, self-worshipping Judaic "prayer" of derision against non-"Jews" and a "traditional Catholic" journalist parrots that sophistry to his readers. And just as Rabbi Neusner, that "traditional Catholic," out of ignorance or otherwise, God knows, makes no mention of the curse which Orthodox Judaics utter against Christians, birkat ha minim, three times daily as part of the shmoneh esre, or any of the mandatory Orthodox Judaic curses on Christian churches and graveyards.

There is a debate shaping up on this matter which is due to a great deal of sacrifice on the part of people other than "trads" like Alessio. That debate will not be won by sloppyness, half-measures and double-mindedness from "balanced" "traditional Catholics."

Ferrara's Rabbi Sponsor

What a pathetic sight to see a Catholic lawyer outsource to a rabbi for his defense.

"... This is ridiculous! False accusations of “anti-Semitism” are a dime a dozen these days, but true anti-Semitism — hatred of the Jewish people — is a sin that I [Christopher Ferrara], Michael [Matt] and Robert [Sungenis] utterly reject as believing Catholics.

"I conclude with these words from Rabbi Mayer Schiller: 'I have known Chris Ferrara and Michael Matt for many years. The notion that they hate Jews is so absurd as to be beneath contempt'.”

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/07/26/opinion/letters/01letter0726.txt

Apparently, Christopher Ferrara believes the word of a traditional Catholic holds little value in the court of public opinion. That's the message implicit in his letter. Need to settle a difficult controversy? Solicit a rabbi of the Talmud to be the final arbiter.

And don't forget what precipitated this event--the SPLC report on traditional Catholics, of course.

Can't they see the dialectic at work here? The SPLC attack on traditional Catholics (Thesis), set the stage for Rabbi Mayer Schiller to sponsor embattled traditional Catholics (Antithesis), which synthesizes rabbinic prestige and inroads into Christian territory.