April 14, 2006
FROM THE ARCHIVES: SALVATION IS FROM THE JEWS:
Pope sees special ties with Judaism (Michael Paulson, April 23, 2005, Boston Globe)
On his first full day in office, Pope Benedict XVI dashed off a key invitation to tomorrow's installation ceremony: to Riccardo Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Rome.Di Segni can't come -- tomorrow is the first day of Passover, which begins at sundown tonight -- but the invitation reinforced Benedict's position, which he outlined in several publications in recent years, that there is a special relationship between the Catholic Church and Judaism.
Richard John Neuhaus has written best on the topic.
[Originally posted: April 23, 2005]
Posted by Orrin Judd at April 14, 2006 12:01 AMYou have to admit, though, that the timing of the invite was pretty stupid.
Now if Catholics were serious of extirpating anti-Semitism, perhaps we could do away with the noxious dating of Easter, which, in 2008, will be on March 23.
A Christian monk back in the days made it the first Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox--done to avoid Passover.
Posted by: Brent Anderson at April 23, 2005 4:17 PM