Pope Francis is being urged by experts to take greater care when referring to “hypocritical” Pharisees, a stereotype that fueled centuries of bad blood between Catholics and Jews.

Catholic-Jewish relations blossomed after the Second Vatican Council — which in 1965 finally urged respect for Judaism — and Francis is a clear friend of the Jews, insisting the Church continue to apologize for anti-Semitism.

Francis asked the experts to carry on with their research in order to arrive at a “more accurate vision of this religious group,” which will contribute to “combating anti-Semitism” and “overcoming old prejudices.”

He also admitted the Pharisees should be referred to “in a more appropriate way in teaching and preaching.”

According to Rabbi David Rosen, director of interfaith affairs at the American Jewish Committee (AJC), merely mentioning the word Pharisaic “does not make somebody an anti-Semite,” but “it is definitely a component of anti-Semitism.”

People should “put it in context, or at least use ‘those Pharisees’ or ‘those Jews,’” he told AFP.

“We’ve raised the issue” with the pope, he said, adding: “I don’t think he will use things in quite the same cavalier manner.”

Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka, an old friend of the pope, said Francis would now know “how to present the Pharisees.”

“We had already talked about it, but he replied, ‘I’m quoting the New Testament,’” he told AFP.

“The pope has so many things on his mind,” he said, but insisted: “It is both a small and a big detail at the same time.”

Amy-Jill Levine, a New Testament and Jewish Studies professor, said it was important to “translate scholarly findings into how Christian leaders preach and teach about the Pharisees.”

Skorka, who has known Francis for years and often corresponds with him by email, said the aim was “to polish the areas of friction in Jewish-Catholic relations.”

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Here you see the anti-Pope with this same Jew, Abraham Skorka, who apparently acquired some kind of psychological hold over him in Argentina.

Note how he emphasises, as if it was a virtue, that, in his dialogue with the Jews, neither side makes any effort to convert the other.

This is no concession by the Jews since they have no interest in making converts. Their “religion” is just racism dressed up as a faith. They don’t want genetically impure goyim switching to their side and “polluting” the “Chosen” gene pool.

It is a shocking thing, however, that anti-Pope Bergoglio has discouraged efforts at evangelisation of non-Christians, formally in the case of Jews, informally in the case of Muslims.

A group of Muslim converts to Catholicism – people who had risked their lives to make this conversion – wrote a letter to Bergoglio last year, asking why they had even bothered, if, as he said, Islam was a valid “path to Salvation”. I found this letter strangely moving. These ex-Muslims seem to have thought much more seriously about the distinctiveness of the Christian faith than the Pope himself ever has done, which is quite extraordinary.

If you sincerely believe you have the secret to eternal truth and everlasting life, sharing it with others is surely a basic moral responsibility. Declining to do so is a moral abnegation that marks your faith out as not being serious.

A couple of weeks ago, the anti-Pope was accused of heresy by dozens of prominent Catholic thinkers, including heavyweight scholars and theologians. One of the signatories expressed the view that “Bergoglio wants to transform the Church into a mildly spiritually flavoured NGO.”

The anti-Pope seems to love telling the Left media what it wants to hear. In pursuit of the next round of applause from people who are neither Catholic nor Christian, in off-the-cuff remarks and ill-thought-out speeches, he casually tramples on centuries of carefully-wrought doctrine. That is the essential grounding of the heresy charges against him.

He is unserious about his faith in a way that seems astonishing in a Pope.

If a heresy proceedings are ever formally instituted against Bergoglio, the fact that he allows Jews to tell him what he is allowed to say, and discourages efforts at converting them to a faith that could perhaps mitigate some of their harmful behaviour, should be added to the list of charges. He is a disgrace to his office and an enemy to Europe and Christendom.

Yes, this book is real.

Having reached the age where the Grim Reaper starts knocking on their door with a big grin on his face, American boomers are looking for one last way to kick their children in the teeth before expiring.

It’s a tough decision, for sure. After you’ve decimated the economy, plundered the land’s natural resources and left the nation on the brink of the bloodiest racial war in existence, there isn’t much left to tick off on the “to do” list.

Hmm… how about teaching English to Israelis? Your generation always worked hand-in-hand with them, after all, and young kikes need to know how to pronounce terms like “anti-Semitism” and “six million” if they intend to keep subverting the West!

Times of Israel:

There’s no reason Hodaya Koskas and Barrett Brickell would know each other.

Koskas, 14, is a high school student from a small city in central Israel who takes ballet classes and hopes to be a dancer. Brickell, 71, is a retired schoolteacher from Ottawa, Canada.

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The Israeli teen and the Canadian retiree are participants in Israel Connect, a program where older North American adults tutor Israeli kids in English once a week via video chat. For seniors like Brickell, the program is a relatively easy way to connect with Israel and help kids. For kids like Koskas, the sessions expand their vocabulary, improve their pronunciation and introduce them to North American culture (she now knows how to pronounce “read” in the past tense, for example).

Of all the countries in the world that are begging for native English speakers, these boomers choose Israel. Not Ukraine, or Italy, or Poland or countless other white nations with established online teaching programs.

Israel.

The same Israel that attacked the USS Liberty, organized 9/11 and invented the Holohoax. That’s the country whose kids should be educated for free (yes, this is voluntary).

*Clink*

The program began in 2011 as a side project of Sarah Gordon, a Canadian with Israeli parents who taught Hebrew in Ottawa. A former classmate of Gordon who taught English in Israel told her about some of her Arab-Israeli students who were struggling to pick up what would be their third language. So Gordon matched them with Canadian seniors she knew who could tutor them from afar.

Since then, Israel Connect has mushroomed. It spread to Toronto and a few areas in the United States, from New Jersey to Baltimore to Florida. It now has 400 volunteer tutors, mostly baby boomers and older, and 500 Israeli high school students from 35 schools. Gordon said baby boomers are a good fit because they wake up early and tend to have free time.

You mean that the boomers’ worshipful attitude toward Israel, acquired from consuming tens of thousands of hours of mainstream media, didn’t influence your decision, Sarah? Because I think it did.

If I were an Israeli teen, I’d want to improve my English with someone my own age, not some out-of-touch old person who believes that Windows Explorer is gone forever when minimized.

Why not get some Generation Z teens to teach these Israelis instead?

Oh yeah, lol.

Volunteers say that aside from the tutoring, they enjoy having direct exposure to life in Israel through young people’s eyes. Beverly Grostern, a volunteer from Ottawa, took her first trip to Israel in decades after a year of tutoring an Israeli girl.

Eugh. This generation really is a lost cause.

I’m reminded of that quote from Based Black Man in The Matrix: “We never free a mind once it reaches a certain age. It’s dangerous, and the mind has trouble letting go.”

It might not be dangerous to inform the average boomer that Jews are imperfect beings, but it is pointless. After decades of single-pointed programming, the mind does seem to become “cemented” in its thinking, leaving little room for alternative viewpoints unless the individual is unusually strong-willed.

This is why the Daily Stormer and other propaganda outlets target the young. Kids are the future, yes, but their minds are also most open to new ideas – particularly if those ideas are rebellious and cool.