"Unmistakable signs emerged that change is afoot."
Nothing changes with the focus of my jewspaper though:
"Catholic fringe disrupts Kristallnacht ceremony" by Michael Warren | Associated Press, November 14, 2013
BUENOS AIRES — Ultratraditionalist Catholics have openly challenged Pope Francis by disrupting one of his favorite events, a ceremony that he and Jewish leaders led in the Metropolitan Cathedral each year to promote religious harmony on the anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust.
The annual ceremony brings together Catholics, Jews, and Protestants to mark Kristallnacht, the Nazi-led mob violence in 1938 when about 1,000 Jewish synagogues were burned and thousands of Jews were forced into concentration camps, launching the genocide that killed 6 million Jews.
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A small group disrupted Tuesday night’s ceremony by shouting the rosary and the ‘‘Our Father’’ prayer, and spreading pamphlets saying ‘‘followers of false gods must be kept out of the sacred temple.’’
Buenos Aires Archbishop Mario Poli, named by Francis to replace him as Argentina’s top church official, appealed for calm as others in the audience rose up to repudiate them, and the protesters were soon escorted out by police.
‘‘Let there be peace. Shalom,’’ Poli then said, urging everyone to take their seats for a ceremony that was also led by Rabbi Abraham Skorka, a close friend of the pope who co-wrote a book of dialogue seeking common ground between Judaism and Catholicism.
‘‘Dear Jewish brothers, please feel at home, because that’s the way Christians want it, despite these signs of intolerance,’’ Poli said. ‘‘Your presence here doesn’t desecrate a temple of God. We will continue in peace this encounter that Pope Francis always promoted, valued, and appreciated so much.’’
The Rev. Christian Bouchacourt, the South America leader of the Society of Saint Pius X, said Wednesday that the protesters belong to his organization and that they have a right to feel outraged when rabbis preside over a ceremony in a cathedral. ‘‘I recognize the authority of the pope, but he is not infallible and in this case, does things we cannot accept,’’ Bouchacourt said in an interview with Radio La Red.
I must be an ultratraditionalist then.
A Vatican spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment e-mailed by The Associated Press.
The Society of St. Pius X has no legal standing in the Catholic Church. It’s a schismatic group of traditionalist Catholics who are attached to Latin Mass and follow the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who founded the Swiss-based society in 1969 in opposition to the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council. The Vatican II meetings reached out to Jews and people of other faiths.
Pope Benedict made reconciling with the society a priority, but Pope Francis has made clear he has little interest in courting the traditionalists.
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Honestly, I'm sick of the whining victimhood.
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They bring it on themselves with the way they treat people and their holier-than-thou attitude. God's chosen people! How arrogant!
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There really is no need to apologize.
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