Did the Church ever finish its apology to the Jewish nation?
For centuries, Catholic teaching claimed Jewish suffering was deserved. Worse, it taught that Jews wanted to be persecuted. That wasn’t humility. That was out-of-control abusive thinking. In 1965, Vatican II changed course. Nostra Aetate rejected “collective guilt” and condemned antisemitism. In the 1990s, the Church asked forgiveness for its silence during the Holocaust. In 2000, […]