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By Jules Gomes, The Stream, May 8, 2024
Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.
A new bill in Congress has refired an old controversy. Let’s examine the issue more closely.
Who killed Jesus? Online mobs of traditionalist Catholics, led by social media celebrities like Taylor Marshall and Catholicism’s newest convert, Candace Owens, are insisting that the New Testament blames the “Jews” for the heinous crime of deicide.
How is it that the very Catholics who claim to be ultra-loyal to the teaching authority of the Roman Church are brazenly violating its definitive rulings, which categorically repudiate the antisemitic trope of collective Jewish guilt for Jesus’s crucifixion?
More bizarrely, why are traditionalist Catholics who blame the Jews for deicide spitting on the coffin of Pope Benedict XVI, the pope who restored to them the traditional Latin Mass? It was Benedict, after all, who in his book Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection, most assiduously debunked the claim that the Jewish authors of the New Testament are indicting the “Jews” for the execution of the Jewish Messiah. …
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