Antisemitism Report 2009 - World Jewish Congress

The Holocaust is Now Catholic Dogma By Joanna Francis –
joannafrancis2005@yahoo.com The last time a Pope of the Catholic Church
defined an infallible dogma was in the year 1950. Pope Pius XII used this power
reserved for the Vicar of Christ when speaking ex cathedra to define the Dogma of the
Assumption of Mary. It was an extraordinary event because a pope using the power of
infallibly to define a dogma is done so rarely, and most popes have never used this
power. Before Pius XII, the last pope to invoke papal infallibly to define a dogma
was Pius IX in 1854, when he defined the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. . . .
Fast forward to 2009 and Pope Benedict XVI has just defined a new dogma regarding
a secular event that has nothing to do with the Faith. Moreover, this ‗dogmatic event‘
only occurred in the middle of the 20th Century- and no one is allowed to investigate
to see if it contains any errors! A dogma is an infallible teaching of the Catholic
Church that must be believed by every Catholic or they‘re not in communion with the
Church. In the past, a dogma referred only to a matter of Christian faith, and Catholics
could believe whatever they wanted about historical events. But today‘s remarks from
the Vatican make it clear that the Jewish version of the Holocaust, in which 6 million
Jews were killed in gas chambers, must be believed by every Catholic or they‘re not
in communion with the Church. That makes the Holocaust an official dogma of the
Catholic Faith. . . . The Shoah is the Hebrew term for the Holocaust. Jewish groups
welcomed the Vatican statement, saying it satisfied their key demand. ―This was the
sign the Jewish world has been waiting for,‖ said Ronald Lauder, president of the
World Jewish Congress. Yes, this is the sign the Jewish world has been waiting for,
but what exactly does this ―sign‖ really mean? It means that in the post-Vatican II
Church, the ―Shoah‖ has replaced the Crucifixion as the central event in history. And
do you notice the subtle switcheroo here? Now, instead of the central tenet of
the Christian faith pertaining to the murder of the Christ by Jews, the new central
tenet refers to the murder of Jews by Christians! This should come as no surprise
to those who understand what really lies at the heart of the problem. At its core, this is
a spiritual battle that‘s being waged above our heads. It‘s Christ vs. anti-Christ, and
each of us must choose a side. Lucifer wanted to be equal to God and out of
pride refused to accept being a servant. When he uttered his famous ―non servium‖ he
took a third of the angels with him and set about waging war against God. When God
sent His Son to redeem the world, Lucifer tried to prevent it. He took Jesus to the
mountain top and tempted Him, saying ―if you just bow down and worship me, I will
give you all these things.‖ Jesus told the devil to buzz off. The Jews who rejected
Jesus as the Messiah did so out of racial pride and ambition. They wanted an earthly
kingdom where they would always be the ‗Chosen Ones‘ and did not want to share a
kingdom with the gentiles. But Jesus emphatically said that His kingdom was not of
this world and to share the good news with the gentiles. The Jews who accepted the
Messiah became the first Christians, and those who rejected Him fell into spiritual
blindness. Satan takes advantage of Jewish hatred of Jesus and uses them to battle
against the Church of Christ. The Jews continue to wait for a wordly Messiah, but the
Messiah they await is known to us as the anti-Christ. Therefore, all Christians must
love and pray for the Jewish people to accept Christ as the Messiah, thereby snatching
them from the jaws of Satan, whom they don‘t realize they are serving. This battle
between Christ and anti-Christ is 2,000 years old and all popes throughout history
have waged it (at least until 1958). . . . If the Jews are (wittingly or unwittingly)
working to bring about the reign of the anti-Christ, then part of their strategy has to be
to neutralize the Church. In their effort to overturn the crucifixion and replace it with
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