Pope Exonerates Jews in Complicity of Jesus' Crucifixion

Netanyahu thanks pope for exoneration - Israel News, Ynetnews: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday for his exoneration of the Jews for the death of Jesus Christ.

Found Innocent
Pope exonerates Jews for Jesus' death / Associated Press
In new book, Benedict XVI explains biblically and theologically why there is no basis in Scripture for accusations against Jewish people as a whole"

Considering all believers in Jesus Christ are complicit in His crucifixion, one does not want to go around pointing fingers. If only one of us is guilty of sin, Jesus was sent to the cross for us. This is our spiritual culpability in the historic event. However, those that were responsible, that day, for the actual event, were the Jews. The pope, under whatever authority he thinks he may have, has indicated that this responsibility is not to be found in scripture. Let's review:

In Mathew 27, Pilate, the Roman governor and all around bad guy, was trying to convince the mob (of Jews) that he should release Jesus because he found no evil in him. However at the insistence of the priests in the crowd, the people (Jews) called out to crucify him. Here it is. Pilate: "What evil has he done?"
Jews crying out all the more, saying, "Let Him be crucified!"

Pilate then washed his hands, literally, of the matter saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just person". And all the people (Jews) said, "His blood be on us and on our children".

It is pretty clear here. Does the pope have authority to supersede scripture? That is not to be.  Should we continually and forever condemn the Jews for this? Are they never to be forgiven? Yes. They can be washed in the blood of Jesus. Their sins can be forgiven. God is a forgiving God; so much so that He gave His only son to be put on the cross by Jews and the rest of us who believe. God help the Jews and God help us. There is no exoneration outside of Christ.

America Once Feared Catholics

In a recent newspaper article, the author gives us a small history lesson. She indicates that in the 1920s, America once feared [Roman] Catholics. She gives some fairly frightening descriptions of the persecution Catholics went through at that time. The insinuation is that we persecuted Catholics at that time because they were different from us thinking they were going to overthrow our government by taking orders from the pope. 


This is happening today, according to the author, when we fear Muslims. They too, we say, are staging an overthrow of the government. However the difference between the Catholics of the 1920s and those who follow Islam today is that you never had Catholics blowing themselves up all over the world. Catholics did not kidnap and kill their captives. They got along well with their neighbors and were a general benefit to the societies in which they lived. Can we say the same for those who follow Islam? Certainly not all or even most Muslims are violent. However to say that we have nothing to fear from them and should treat them in a similar fashion as we do Roman Catholics is naive and dangerous. We need to see the threat as real and stop deceiving ourselves.