Catholics should not try to convert Jews, should fight against anti-Semitism – Vatican

‘Catholics shouldn’t try to convert Jews, but should work with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said on Thursday. It comes on the 50th anniversary of a document which echoed the same sentiments and rejected Jewish responsibility for the crucifixion.

The statement from the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with Jews noted that Christianity and Judaism are intertwined, and stressed that God never annulled his covenant with the Jewish people.

“The Church is therefore obliged to view evangelization to Jews, who believe in the one God, in a different manner from that to people of other religions and world views,” the document said. It added that Catholics should “bear witness to their faith in Jesus Christ also to Jews,” but in “a humble and sensitive manner, acknowledging that Jews are bearers of God’s word…”’

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