What Will He Do?

In case you haven't heard, tolerance is a one-way street. Of course, if you're a member of the NewChurch, that's just fine. From inventing Holy Thursday ceremonies that include women to "praying" in a mosque as the head of the Church, modern Catholics have been only too happy to assist the enemies of the Church in their efforts to destroy it.

But now we have a real fight on our hands, one that cannot be spun as the product of ecumenism by Rome. Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi who polices the goings-on at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, has laid down the law to PB16 on the eve of his trip to the Holy Land, declaring publicly that PB16 must not wear his pectoral cross while visiting the Wailing Wall. Here are two articles from Jewish newspapers on the controversy:

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/17/1003767/rabbi-no-crosses-at-western-wall
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237114844980&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

This is not the first time Rabinovitch has demanded that such "insulting and provocative" symbols be removed. Here is a link to an article from 2007 regarding his bullying of 14 Austrian bishops and their pectoral crosses: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124235

In his latest insult to Catholics, Rabinovitch makes the claim that PJP2 did not wear his pectoral cross when he visited the Wailing Wall in 2000. The link to this picture makes it clear that PJP2 did in fact wear his pectoral cross and that Rabinovitch is either stupid or a liar: http://www.note2god.com/uploads/news/id14/pope_kotel2.gif

But 9 years later we have an entirely different situation, not to mention pope. PB16 is still in hot water for the whole SSPX/Bishop Williamson affair. PB16 already has apostatized with his treacherous visit to the Blue Mosque in Turkey in 2006, but even the Muslims did not demand that he remove his cross. Then again, maybe the Muslims are just better at PR, for I cannot imagine how any Muslim, let alone a pagan or even a Christian, can take seriously anything PB16 says after being photographed in a mosque, praying with a "religion" that denies Christ. Anyway, here is a link to a series of pics of PB16 visiting the Blue Mosque: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6197064.stm

I'll admit to a sort of grudging respect for Rabinovich. He's managed to "offend" Jewish women's groups who have sought to revolt against Jewish customs at the Wall. We'll see very soon whether PB16 is as generous to the Jews as he was to the Muslims.

R. Catesby