Christianity's Original Sin? Can the church itself be guilty of sin? In 1994, Pope John Paul II addressed that question. He distinguished between the ...

to analyse reasons for evading the catastrophe and the guilt of the Catholic Church. ... The attempt to refute collective guilt without exception functions as a ...

Apr 30, 2016 ... It was an institutional guilt, since it concerned the actions of its ministers and its teachings on Judaism. In fact, a “teaching of contempt,” ...

Jan 31, 2014 ... ... guilt at having abandoned his family, who later died in the Holocaust. Jesus is not only the one who suffers, but also the one who abandoned ...

Apr 1, 2023 ... ... guilt to an external body, such as “the Jews.” This is because a singer can see themselves in the more generic descriptions of sinners. As ...

Apr 9, 1985 ... ... guilt for the crime. This is important for catechesis and homilies, especially during Lent and Holy Week, as well as for any dramatizations ...

Jun 1, 2022 ... Christians, on the other hand, began to look at Judaism first of all from a prism of guilt, of a debt owed, of an almost overwhelming task to ...

Nov 1, 2015 ... ... guilty of persecuting the Jews, and called for the Church to never forget that ... guilt until Pope John Paul II did so in the Holy Year 2000.

Over the years, Jewish behavior was colored even more darkly: Jews were portrayed as Christ killers, a people guilty ... It assesses Christian guilt in the ...

... guilt could be handed down to succeeding generations of Jews by birth. Yet most Christians believed it. Perhaps it was comforting. If a Christian could ...