Father Hunwicke vs Pope Saint Gregory the Great

Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor
A.D.  540 – 604

September 3—Memorial
Liturgical Color—WhitePatron Saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers

Several days ago ABS responded to a plea by Father Hunwicke that we become better Jews.

ABS found that an absurd plea because, in the first place, he doesn't define what he means by Jew but most people consider Jews to be the race that rejected, and stir rejects, Jesus as Messias. How could Catholics become better Jews?

ABS suspects it is more of the typical political blather redolent of masonry that we are all brothers who worship God as each desires..blah blah blah.

It's your choice, dear reader, the new theology or Tradition...

Well, what did Pope Gregory the Great have to teach about The Jews?

Let's hear from a Jew who helped changed Catholic Tradition and Doctrine in Vatican Two:

“ ‘Drunk with pride (writes the great Pope) the Jews have 
bent all their energy on closing their minds to God’s representa- 
tives. . . . They lost humility and with it the understanding of 
the truth.’ 

“Like the fourth Evangelist, Gregory incessantly abuses the 
term the Jews to draw attention to the clique of Jesus’ enemies, 
which amounts to condemning the whole of the Jewish people to 
the contempt and hatred of the faithful : The Jews handed over 
the Lord and accused him ’ (j u i es i saac , ibid., pp. 289-90) 

“ ‘The finest examples failed to move this vulgar nation to 
serve God with love, not fear . . . Israel’s faith consisted only in 
obeying the divine precepts to the letter . . . they became not 
a means for sanctification but a source of pride. ... To rise up 
to God, Israel had the wings of the Law, but her heart, crawling 
in the lowest depths on earth, held her down. . . . The infidel 
people only understood the incarnation of God in the flesh, and 
would not accept him as more than a man . . . thus the spouse, 
given up to carnal judgment, failed to recognise the mystery of 
the Incarnation.’ ” 

(St. Gregory the Great, quoted by Jules Isaac, ibid, pp. 289-90) 
Jules Isaac continues: 


“This theme of the ‘carnal people’ is infinitely dangerous since 
it leads inevitably to that of the people of ‘the Beast’, of ‘the 
antichrist’ and of ‘the devil’ actuated by perverse, diabolical 

hatred against God and his supporters. 


(ibid., p. 290) 


“ ‘Because the hearts of the Jews are without faith,’ said St. 
Gregory, ‘they have submitted to the devil ... the Synagogue 
is not only unwilling to accept the faith, but has fought it with 
the sword and has raised up against it the horrors of a merciless 
persecution ... is it not true to say that the Beast has made 
his den in the hearts of Jewish persecutors? ... the more the 
Holy Spirit filled the world the more perverse hatred enchained 
the souls of the Jews; their blindness has made them cruel and 
their cruelty has driven them to implacable persecution’.