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What’s In a Name? Plenty Actually.
Posted by Clif on 04/19/05 at 9:06 pm
Category: Radical Clerics
Pope Benedict XVI, né Josef Ratzinger, having joined Hitler Youth in the 1940s, involuntarily he claims, arguably should be sensitive to charges of anti-semitism. But he has picked the name of a notoriously anti-semitic Pope. Benedict XIV issued an infamous encyclical in 1751 entitled A Quo Primum in which Benedict XVI’s namesake forbade Jews and Christians from living in the same city, declared it permissible for Jews to be stripped of wealth that they had “stolen” from Christians, and forbade Christians from having business dealings with Jews.
Here are some choice things that Benedict XIV had to say in that encyclical:
Because the Jews control businesses selling liquor and even wine, they are therefore allowed to supervise the collection of public revenues. They have also gained control of inns, bankrupt estates, villages and public land by means of which they have subjugated poor Christian farmers. The Jews are cruel taskmasters, not only working the farmers harshly and forcing them to carry excessive loads, but also whipping them for punishment.
It is now even commonplace for Christians and Jews to intermingle anywhere. But what is even less comprehensible is that Jews fearlessly keep Christians of both sexes in their houses as their domestics, bound to their service. Furthermore, by means of their particular practice of commerce, they amass a great store of money and then by an exorbitant rate of interest utterly destroy the wealth and inheritance of Christians
Innocent III, after saying that Jews were being received by Christians into their cities, warns that the method and condition of this reception should guard against their repaying the benefit with evildoing. “They on being admitted to our acquaintance in a spirit of mercy, repay us, the popular proverb says, as the mouse in the wallet, the snake in the lap and fire in the bosom usually repay their host.”
Peter, abbot of Cluny, likewise wrote against Radulph to King Louis of France, and urged him not to allow the destruction of the Jews. But at the same time he encouraged him to punish their excesses and to strip them of the property they had taken from Christians or had acquired by usury; he should then devote the value of this to the use and benefit of holy religion, as may be seen in the Annals of Venerable Cardinal Baronius (1146). In this matter, as in all others, We adopt the same norm of action as did the Roman Pontiffs who were Our venerable predecessors.
Yeah, Pope Benedict is somebody we should all emulate — “You can’t kill Jews but you can take stuff away from them.” Rather like Pope Benedict XVI’s views of dealing with gay men and women, don’t you think?
