By Christ or Chaos by Staff, (Complicit Clergy), April 19, 2025
But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing. Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation. (John 11: 49-51)
The high priest Caiphas spoke the words above, recorded for posterity in the Gospel according to Saint John, to indicate that he had a “strategy” for dealing with the Roman occupiers as his party of Pharisees maintained their privileged places in the Roman occupation of the provinces of Palestine, including Judea and Galilee. Caiphas may have suspected that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was God in the very Flesh, that He was indeed the Messiah who had been prophesied in Sacred Scripture. Caiphas did not care about the truth of the matter. It was more “expedient” for Caiphas and his party of Pharisees that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be put to death so as to protect their own places in the Roman order of things. The Pharisees had made their “accommodations” to the Roman occupation of Palestine, and they would not let the Zealot party, or any self-professed Son of God upset their status with the people who they held under their thumbs.
Ever eager to appease today’s Talmudists, who are not, at least for the most part, descended from the Abrahamic Jews of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s time here on the face of this earth as He effected our redemption at the price of the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday, the conciliar “bishops” of the United States of America have appealed cried out “Give us Caiphas! Give us Caiphas” to “educate” those within the conciliar structures that the “Jewish people are not reject or cursed, as this view followed from Scripture.”
Here is the relevant part of a “liturgical note” that the so-called United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have mandated to be inserted into the missalettes that are used in the pews of Catholic churches within the structures of the conciliar religion to combat any possible feelings of “antisemitism” that might be engendered by the reading of the Passion according to Saint John the Evangelist on Good Friday:
“The passion narratives are proclaimed in full so that all see vividly the love of Christ for each person. In light of this, the crimes during the Passion of Christ cannot be attributed, in either preaching or catechesis, indiscriminately to all Jews of that time, nor to Jews today. The Jewish people should not be referred to as though rejected or cursed, as if this view followed from Scripture. The Church ever keeps in mind that Jesus, his mother Mary, and the apostles all were Jewish. As the Church has always held, Christ freely suffered his passion and death because of the sins of all, that all might be saved.” (The USCCB’s Good Friday pastoral note.)
There are several aspects to this “pastoral note” to be discussed in this brief commentary.