This teaching was contrary to the Bible and the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and has been criticized by a Catholic priest.
The Cardinal stated that he had the support of the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone and the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI. There has been no contradiction from the Vatican.
Cardinal Bertone also had called the attention of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to a front page article in the L'Osservatore Roamano written by Cardinal Walter Kaspar in which he stated Jews do not have to convert in the present time.
The cardinals were selling the Church to create peace with Israel and the Jewis Left rabbis associated with the Rabbinate of Israel.Just as these days politicians and governments are being made to accept homosexuality and abortion in their countries the Catholic Church's teachings on extra ecclesiam nulla salus is also being changed through pressure on the Vatican Curia.
An Italian diocesan priest in Rome had appealed to the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to correct the statement of the Conference of Italian Bishops President Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, who has assured the pro-homosexuality, abortion and syncretism Jewish Left that Jews do not have to convert and that the Church will not actively seek their conversion.
The cardinal issued the statement on Sept.22,2009 .It was reported in the daily Avvenire, on Sept.23, 2009 the feast day of Padre Pio.
Father Tullio Rotondo in a an e-mail message to me said that the cardinal’s statement was contary to the Bible in which all Jews are called to conversion.
Fr.Rotondo said that Jesus had called all people to convert, especially the Jews. Jesus had sent His Apostles to convert all people.
Fr.Rotondo referred to Bible passages Matt.3:2.Matt.4:17,Matt.11:20, Matt.12:41,Matt.13:15,Matt 18:3,Mark 1:15,Marck 4:12, Mark 6:12,Luk 5:32, Luke 10:30,Luke 11:32,Luk 13:3,Luke 13:5,Luke 15:7,Luke 15:10,John 12:40,Acts 3:26,9:35,Acts.20:21,Acts.26:20,Acts.28:27,2 Tim.2:25.
The above Biblical quotations Fr.Tullio Rotondo said help us understand that first and foremost the Jews need to convert and then the others. It makes us understand that we must preach for the conversion of the Jews and we must pray and appeal to the saints for this conversion.
We pray also for the conversion of the cardinals, he said, who say things that appear scandalous and contrary to the Sacred Faith. Don Tullio said that he is praying also that the Holy Father intervenes.
Don Tullio said that we must fight also in the Church of God, for the Truth.
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