Friday, October 8, 2010

Rabbi who visited Vatican offices and warned them against Catholic Mission is to lecture at the Gregorian University, Rome

Other professors including socialists and pro communists and a Catholic professor who denies obligatory church teaching are also scheduled lecturers for first semester students including seminarians.

The Rabbi Joseph Levi has his classes scheduled every Monday at the Gregorian University Rome. The Rabbi along with Rabbi Ricardo Segno Pacifici had visited Vatican Offices according to the daily Avvenire and warned them against Catholic Mission. They had also visited the Urbaniana University and then invited the Rector of the Urbaniana to a conference organised by the Binai Birth, Italy. The message seemed Catholic mission could result in penalties which would be concrete. The Rabbis were accompanied to the Urbaniana University by the founder leader of the San Egido Community who is supported in his projects by the wealthy Jewish Left.

Catholic mission teaching is officially being shelved in the Pontifical Universities while the Rome Vicariate to protect itself closed down the well known magazine on Mission, Christ to the World. It reported that the Church had not retracted the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

The first Semester course on Judaic Studies will also be addressed (Oct.13-Nov.17, 2010) by Anna Foa, a Jewish Left supporter whose family has socialist and communist ties.

Prof.Joseph Sievers a Catholic and former director of this centre at the Jesuit-run University; the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies, told me that he would not answer basic questions related to the Catholic Church and  his teaching at the centre.

1. Does the Catholic Church teach that Judaism is not a path to salvation?

2. Does he accept the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus?

3. When he meets a Jew does he assume that he or she is being saved with a good conscience or does he or she have to convert into the Catholic Church to go to Heaven and avoid Hell?

Sievers an alleged Catholic who was not willing to affirm basic Catholic teaching in public was teaching Catholic seminarians and others at the Gregorian University.

Sievers also has a class during this first semester for which enrolment closes Nov.30,2010 and Catholic seminarians are invited to join.

The new director of the Centre Fr. Thomas G. Casey S.J lectures on Wednesdays. The subject is , ‘What recent Christian and Judaic philosophers say about faith, hope, and love and how these ‘theological virtues’ contribute to our well being.’

Prof. Kepnes a visiting professor will have ‘readings from Judaism, Christianity, Islam’ in a ‘new form of inter religious dialogue’. Corses in Modern Hebrew are also offered.

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