The Pope and the Cheshire Cat
When we meet cats who grin, that is, people who are naturally nice and warm, we tend to think that they are good people. A grin of the sort gives itself out as an implicit promise of support in time of need. Somebody whom we identify as empathic will be most likely to help. What is very curious is realizing that certain people's cordial grin amounts to nothing more than a grin – that there is nothing be...
Le Sionisme Catholique
Le don inconditionnel de l'élection du peuple juif constitue le fondement théologique du sionisme catholique. De nombreux textes du Nouveau Testament peuvent venir à l'appui de l'idée selon laquelle les catholiques devraient soutenir le sionisme. Jésus lui-même était un juif chrétien sioniste. Les catholiques reconnaissent que le peuple juif a...
Un nouveau Sionisme Chrétien
Les détracteurs du sionisme chrétien le rejettent généralement pour l’une ou plusieurs des trois raisons suivantes : (1) Ils disent que celui-ci met en miettes le Nouveau Testament, où l'accent mis par l'Ancien Testament sur un pays particulier est remplacé par la vision du monde dans sa totalité ; (2) Ils pensent que c'est là, la préoccupation exclusive des dispensationalistes prémillénaristes...
The Holy Mass that I Did not Celebrate
On the one hand, there is the Christian message of unconditional love and its emphasis on self-sacrifice at the hands of those who hate you unjustly: "No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends." On the other hand, there is the logic of war: you want to liquidate those who hate you to the point of murdering your nation by all possible means, prefera...
Pourquoi la terre promise appartient aux israélites
Gerald McDermott étudie la notion de substitution dans la théologie chrétienne, celle-ci estime que les promesses faites au peuple juif dans l'Ancien Testament, y compris la promesse d’une terre, ont été substituées par l'Église chrétienne. Il soutient que ce point de vue a dominé l'interprétation chrétienne depuis le quatrième siècle, conduisant à la marginalisation dans le...
Dr. André Villeneuve on Israel and the Church
Dr. André Villeneuve discusses the role of Israel in the age of the Church on Michael Lofton's "Reason and Theology" podcast. Topics include God's covenant with Israel, supersessionism, the idea of the Church as "new Israel", Israel's role in the age of the Church, the modern state of Israel, Zionism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Israel's...
La Prophétie biblique du massacre du 7 octobre
Avant que les enfants d’Israël n’entrent en Terre promise, Dieu les a avertis qu’ils pourraient être tentés d’oublier Dieu s’ils tiraient orgueil de leur prospérité (Dt 8, 11-20). En conséquence, ils serviraient de nouveaux dieux et, en guise de punition, ils seraient attaqués par un peuple qui n’en serait pas vraiment un.
Zionism in Luke-Acts
According to Luke-Acts, Jerusalem possesses a unique status not only because "the kingdom of Christ" is "historically anchored" there, but even more because that kingdom will achieve its eschatological consummation within its walls.
On September 2, 2009, Catholic apologist Robert Sungenis published a document entitled "The Erroneous Teachings of Catholics for Israel” in which he directly attacks the legitimacy of our apostolate. This document states that on the 
Not surprisingly, Israel's interception of the "humanitarian aid" flotilla heading for Gaza in the early morning of May 31, 2010, which ended with nine activists killed and dozens wounded, has sparked outrage and harsh condemnations from the international community. The incident has been described as an Israeli "crime" and "massacre" of peaceful humanitarian workers who only wished to relieve the suffering of the people of Gaza.
Day by day the anti-Israel alliance, and sadly in collaboration with major church movements mainly from the Protestant world, is seeking to make the Apartheid label stick to Israel. We see this at present in the fortnight of global agitation known as “Israel Apartheid Week.” There is more to this scheming than meets the eye in that the real agenda behind branding Israel an “Apartheid state” is to remove the Jewish State altogether.
Jesus Christ suffers in the passion of Israel. In striking Israel, the anti-Semites strike him, insult him and spit on him. To persecute the house of Israel is to persecute Christ, not in his mystical body as when the Church is persecuted, but in his fleshly lineage and in his forgetful people whom he ceaselessly loves and calls. In the passion of Israel, Christ suffers and acts as the shepherd of Zion and the Messiah of Israel, in order gradually to conform his people to him.
"Sadly, anti-Semitism continues to rear its ugly head in many parts of the world. This is totally unacceptable." The following is the speech delivered by Pope Benedict XVI at Ben Gurion airport upon his arrival in Israel on May 11, 2009.
The self-styled “Kairos Palestine” document was launched in Bethlehem on December 11,2009 by a panel chaired by the former Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem,Michel Sabbah. The document is meant to mobilize churches worldwide in a program of boycotts, divestment and delegitimization directed at the State of Israel.
With God on Our Side, a 2010 movie produced by Rooftop Productions, portrays Christian Zionism as a dangerous political movement in the U.S. and a spoiler to the peace process between Israel and its adversaries in the Middle East.
