POPE JOHN PAUL II SAID JEWS NEED TO CONVERT AND INTER RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE WAS A PART OF CATHOLIC MISSION

There was an Associated Press report recently titled US Jews protest Catholic document on salvation by Rachel Zoll.

NEW YORK — Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman Catholic leaders is at risk because of a recent U.S. bishops' statement on salvation.
Jewish groups said they interpret the new document to mean that the bishops view interfaith dialogue as a chance to invite Jews to become Catholic. The Jewish leaders said they "pose no objection" to Christians sharing their faith, but said dialogue with Jews becomes "untenable" if the goal is to persuade Jews to accept Christ as their savior.
"A declaration of this sort is antithetical to the very essence of Jewish-Christian dialogue as we have understood it," Jewish leaders said in a letter to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The signers were the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and rabbis representing the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements...

The writer states :

Pope John Paul II had spoken repeatedly of a covenant "never revoked." Many Jewish groups view the bishops' statement as stepping back from the pope's position.

Pope John Paul II instead taught that Jews needed to convert for salvation which the writer ignores.

Catechism of the Catholic Church 845.' To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into His Son's Church. The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation...she is prefigured by Noah's Ark which alone saves from the flood'...

The Holy Father Pope John Paul II was clear that Judaism was not a path to salvation and Jews are called into the Catholic Church.

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Notification on Fr. Jacques Dupuis S.J. Vatican (2001). 7. According to Catholic doctrine the followers of other religions are oriented to the Church and are all called to become part of her.

There was no theology said Pope John Paul, which could say that Judaism and other religions were paths to salvation.

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Notification on Fr. Jacques Dupuis s.j., Vatican (2001) '8...to hold that these religions ...are ways of salvation has no foundation in Catholic theology, also because they contain omissions, insufficiencies and errors regarding fundamental truths about God, man and the world.

The Catholic Church was the ordinary means of salvation taught Pope John Paul II but these facts are not mentioned in the media. The Associated Press also ignores these teachings of Pope John Paul II.

Redemptoris Missio (1990) 55.'The fact that the followers of other religions can receive God's Grace and be saved by Christ apart from the ordinary means which God has established ..inter religious dialogue, therefore should be conducted and implemented with the conviction that the Church is the ordinary means of salvation and she alone possesses the fullness of the means of salvation...’.(emphasis added)

Pope John Paul was expressing the teachings of Vatican Council II.

Therefore, all must be converted to Him as He is made known by the Church’s preaching. All must be incorporated into Him by baptism, and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself explicit terms affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism (cf.Mk.16:16; Jn.3:5) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by God through Jesus Christ would refuse to enter her or to remain in her could not be saved.-Vatican Council II, Decree on the Missionary activity of the Church, Ad Gentes # 7.(Emphasis added)

Catechism of the Catholic Church ' Outside the Church there is no salvation' 846. 'How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers? Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church, which is his Body:

‘Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church, which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it, or remain in it.'

In brief:

Ad Gentes 7 Vatican Council II : that all people need to enter the Catholic Church.

Lumen Gentium 14 Vatican Council: Catholic Faith and Baptism are needed for all.

The Decree on Ecumenism (UR) 3, Vatican Council II: Catholic Church is the true faith.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church 845: God the Father wants all people to worship Him and to enter the Catholic Church. God the Father wants all people to be united into the Catholic Church.

Notification,N.7, Fr. Jacques Dupuis S.J, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican Prefect: Cardinal Ratzinger: All people need to be oriented into the Catholic Church and to be a part of her.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church 1257 : The Catholic Church knows of no means of salvation other than baptism.

Judaism and non Catholic religions are not paths to salvation (Dominus Iesus 21). This is exactly what the late Fr. Leonard Feeney taught and died teaching, without ever changing his belief in the dogma outside the Catholic Church there is No Salvation.

In the Letter of the Holy Office to Archbishop Cushing (1949) relative to Fr. Leonard Feeney, it is mentioned

‘The infallible dictum which teaches us that outside the Church there is no salvation, is among the truths that the Church has always taught and will always teach…

The Church teaches, first of all, that there is question here of a very strict command of Jesus Christ. In unmistakable words He gave His apostles the command to teach all nations to keep whatever He had commanded (cf.Mr.28:19).Not least among Christ’s commands is the one which orders us to be incorporated by baptism into the mystical Body of Christ, which is the Church, and to be united to Christ and to His vicar, through whom He Himself governs the Church on earth in a visible way. Therefore, no one who knows that the Church has been divinely established by Christ and, nevertheless, refuses to be a subject of the Church or refuses to obey the Roman Pontiff, the vicar of Christ on earth, will be saved…’.- Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston (1949)

The Letter affirmed the dogma and indicated that all Jews in Boston need Catholic Faith and the Baptism of water to avoid Hell (and to go to Heaven).

However the Jewish Left media has been politically and consistently opposing Church teaching.

Propaganda 1: Fr.Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for heresy and the Church has retracted its teaching on outside the Church no salvation.

Propaganda 2: Nostra Aetate has changed Church teaching and Jews do not have to convert.

Propaganda 3: Pope John Paul II said that God has an eternal covenant with the Jews and so there is no New Covenant of Jesus. Jews do not have to convert.

The Great Mandate Jesus gives us is to go out and preach the Good News. Since those ‘who do not believe will be condemned’. The Gospel of John continuously refers to the need for the Jews to convert to the new Church.

Lumen Gentium 14 indicates that the Jewish leaders of the organisations mentioned above are oriented to Hell since they are educated and know about Jesus and the Catholic Church.

The Letter of the Holy Office concludes with the following words, contradicting the Rabbis and the ADL.

‘With these prudent words the Pope censures those who exclude from eternal salvation all men who adhere to the Church only with an implicit desire; and he also censures those who falsely maintain that men can be saved equally well in any religion…’

Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa and President of the Italian Conference of Catholic Bishops (Cei) has reached an agreement with Jewish Left Rabbis in Italy- Catholics will not actively convert Jews or even pray for their conversion. They do not have to convert-this is saying that 'men can be saved equally wll in any religion'.