Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, frustrated Christians outside the Roman Catholic Church last week by ordering bishops not to refer to Protestant denominations as "sister churches." And in a major document from his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he said that Protestant churches "suffer from defects" and "are not Churches in the proper sense." Now that Protestants are agitated, Ratzinger is upsetting Jews as well. The German magazine Focus quotes a new book by Ratzinger as saying, "Catholics do not want to impose Christ on the Jews, but they are waiting for the moment when Israel also says yes to Christ." British Reform Rabbi Jonathan Romain tells The Jerusalem Post it's "an astonishing remark that appears to contradict Vatican policy of the last 35 years." Similarly, British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks tells the paper, "You can't make these monopolistic claims anymore and still have credibility with cultures that really believe their own faith has its own integrity." But Rabbi Sacks, isn't the belief that Israel should say yes to Christ part of the Roman Catholic Church's (and most of the rest of orthodox Christianity's) own integrity? It'll be interesting to read the inevitable articles comparing this statement with the one released over the weekend by the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, which implies Christian churches no longer believe that Judaism is "a religion that prepared the way for, and is completed in, Christianity."

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