Does it show an underlining anti-Semetism in the Roman Catholic Church to try to supress the knowledge that Jesus, Joseph, and Mary were Jews?
2007-11-01 07:37:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes the catholic empire has always been and continues to be anti-semitic, all their images of Jesus are white, they changed the sabbath from saturday to sunday as well, not to mention Hitler was catholic and probably gathered most of views from his upbringing
2007-11-01 07:45:25 · answer #1 · answered by miname 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Good point! It's only rather recently that the Church became officially not antisemitic (Vatican II, which ended in 1964)so I can imagine there are a lot of antisemites still around in prominent places in the Church. As for the names, the Popes take the names of past Popes with whom they agree on the mission of their papacy. Therefore, if the Church officially considered Jews heathens up till 1965, there wouldn't be Popes who would have taken Jewish names.
2007-11-01 14:44:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
They have Latin names because Latin is the official language of the Roman Catholic Church, but they are adopted to whatever language you speak, so the last pope, Johannes Paulus, was called John Paul in English, Jean-Paul in French, and so on. Pretty flexible and international, in other words.
Why would Hebrew names be more rational? Very few people in the Church speak Hebrew nowadays (and also not in Jesus' own times, because the Jews mostly didn't speak Hebrew, but Arameic and Greek). Maybe pope John Paul was called something else also in Hebrew, I don't know.
And you can't possibly mean not using Hebrew names in non-Hebrew languages would mean being antisemitic? Then why do you write Mary's name in English, not in Hebrew?
2007-11-01 15:02:09 · answer #3 · answered by juexue 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Interesting question.
I think that the underlying anti semitism in Christianity is the insistence that the Jews killed Jesus, when in fact it was the Romans who crucified him. Nor did the Jews somehow pressure the Romans into killing Christ; the Jews were totally oppressed and not in any position to get the Romans to do anything.
As for your question, good point, but somehow Pope Cohen just doesn't sound right...!
2007-11-01 14:43:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Uhh, no. Most Popes have taken names of early martyrs/saints i.e. Benedict, because Catholics venerate new testament Saints, rather than the old testament saints. Also most of the early Popes were Romans, and kept their names. Your accusation is pretty stupid, so here's a star to make you feel better.
2007-11-01 14:43:02 · answer #5 · answered by STAR POWER=) 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't understand why they just don't keep their real names. Pope Benedict XVI real name is Joseph Alois Ratzinger. What's wrong with Pope Joseph?
2007-11-01 14:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Popes adopt names of Saints or other Popes, who had common names for their culture.
Let's see what are some of the names:
Leo
Gregory
John
Paul
Julius
Mark
Stephen
Theodore
Benedict
Victor
Alexander
Nicholas
Martin
Those don't seem like Latin names to me.
2007-11-01 14:51:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
What we REALLY need, to complete the set, is Pope Ringo.
CD
2007-11-01 14:45:57 · answer #8 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
How about Pope Larry III?
You have a great point.
2007-11-01 14:43:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Dude. It's called the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH!!!
2007-11-01 14:46:57 · answer #10 · answered by Money 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋