POPE AND CARDINAL ANGELO AMATO AT LOGGERHEADS?

If the pope has created a new teaching on the Jews to avoid the charge of anti Semitism then, is there the risk, of Vatican Council II being considered ‘hate’,’ racist’ and anti Semitic?

Yes. And the problem for the pope is Cardinal Angelo Amato.

He has repeatedly been calling in public for mission and evangelisation based on Vatican Council II. He has actually cited passages from Vatican Council II which inspire him (Lumen Gentium 14, Ad Gentes 7).

This was too much for whoever was monitoring him when he was the Secretary of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican.

Efforts failed to get him to speak only of Jesus being the only Saviour and to avoid mentioning the necessity of the Church for salvation.

He was removed from his post and replaced by a professor of the Jesuit Gregorian University, Rome, someone who would not say that the Church is necessary for all people to enter through Catholic Faith and the Baptism of water to go to Heaven and avoid Hell (Ad Gentes 7). Jews included.

Cardinal  Angelo Amato,the present  Prefect for the Congregation for the Cause of the Saints has said inter religious dialogue should not exclude proclamation. He was in accord with Pope Pius XII whose cause for beatification he has pushed ahead. The Servant of God approved Catholic Mission in its purity of doctrine- calling for a proclamation based on the dogma which said all non-Catholics need to explicitly enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell and go to Heaven

Cardinal Amato was speaking at a conference on ecumenism and inter religious dialogue organised in Emilia Romagna, Italy according to Avvenire (Amato: il dialogo non exclude l'nnuncio ' Stefano Andrini da Bologna Dec3.2009, Avvenire p.16 Catholica)

The former Archbishop  Secretary, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Vatican in an interview in the Italian daily Avvenire has emphasised the importance of Catholic Mission. He was interviewed at the Salesian University, Rome by Gianni Cardinale (Amato: non ce Chiesa senza missione, March 8, 2008, Saturday p. 21, Catholica, Avvenire).

Archbishop Angelo Amato, CDF, Sec., Vatican was saying that Judaism without the Jewish Savior is not a path to salvation and all Jews in general, need the baptism of water and Catholic Faith. He quoted the text from the Council Ad Gentes 7, Lumen Gentium 14) which says:

˜All must be incorporated into Him by baptism, and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself explicit terms affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism (cf.Mk.16:16; Jn.3:5) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism (cf.Mk.16:16; Jn.3:5) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church.

As Prefect he promised his many supporters and fans that he would be back to talk about Catholic Mission.

However there seems to have been no new affirmation of mission according to Ad Gentes 7, Lumen Gentium 14.

Now with the new policy on the Jews revealed to Peter Seewald, it would seem, necessary, that Angelo Amato, a Salesian priest, remain silent.

He was made a cardinal recently along with Cardinal Raymond Burke. Will Angelo Amato remain faithful to Pope Benedict’s new teaching on Jews not needing to convert in the present times?

At Cardinal Amato’s next meeting with Papaboys in Rome, will he inspire those young people to go out in mission?
What more can he be offered to avoid a confrontation on doctrine?               

This Salesian priest knows that Don Bosco like Vatican Council II taught the rigorist interpretation of outside the church there is no salvation.

The new teaching on the Jews not needing to convert in the present times is a contradiction of the cardinals earlier teachings. It is also a contradiction of the Bible.

Judaism



I must say that from the first day of my theological studies, the profound unity between the Old and New Testament, between the two parts of our Sacred Scripture, was somehow clear to me. I had realized that we could read the New Testament only together with what had preceded it, otherwise we would not understand it. Then naturally what happened in the Third Reich struck us as Germans, and drove us all the more to look at the people of Israel with humility, shame, and love.


In my theological formation, these things were interwoven, and marked the pathway of my theological thought. So it was clear to me – and here again in absolute continuity with John Paul II – that in my proclamation of the Christian faith there had to be a central place for this new interweaving, with love and understanding, of Israel and the Church, based on respect for each one’s way of being and respective mission[. . .]


A change also seemed necessary to me in the ancient liturgy. In fact, the formula was such as to truly wound the Jews, and it certainly did not express in a positive way the great, profound unity between Old and New Testament. For this reason, I thought that a modification was necessary in the ancient liturgy, in particular in reference to our relationship with our Jewish friends. I modified it in such a way that it contained our faith, that Christ is salvation for all. That there do not exist two ways of salvation, and that therefore Christ is also the savior of the Jews, and not only of the pagans. But also in such a way that one did not pray directly for the conversion of the Jews in a missionary sense, but that the Lord might hasten the historic hour in which we will all be united. For this reason, the arguments used polemically against me by a series of theologians are rash, and do not do justice to what was done. - Benedict XVI, “Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times”, Ignatius Press, 2010. (From the website La Chiesa)(Emphasis added)