The blind leading the blind

Interesting that the Catholic Tablet of March 10th devotes a long article to a Catholic Bishop who supports Venezuelan 'acclaimed populist leader, Hugo Chavez'. The author of this article states that Chavez 'has ... been the object of charater assassination - not least in Britain - which suggests, mendaciously, that he is an anti-Semitic dicator ....' 

I think people can judge for themselves.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1157913656782

But then, there was another populist leader once and the Catholic Church turned a blind eye to that one as well, when it wasn't actually endorsing him.

So no wonder it can report the recent statement made by Catholic German Bishops here in the 'Holy Land', in which the Warsaw Ghetto (as seen in Yad Vashem) is compared to the 'Ramallah ghetto', not as a Catholic prejudice but simply as 'Germans re-open old wounds':

http://cathcon.blogspot.com/search/label/Bishop%20Hanke

As my grandmother, who I never knew, died in the Warsaw Ghetto at the hands of German and Polish Catholics, I take great exception to the present generation of German Catholics comparing Ramallah, which is under the jurisdiction of Hamas, and before that of Arafat and his cronies, to the unspeakable cesspit in which my grandmother and millions like her, perished for the crime of being Jewish.

Especially when every day of my life I see Arab Catholics doing really well in the State of Israel, and especially in the university, medical and legal professions here in Haifa.

Which brings me to the very Church of England Church Times, which continues to ridicule Israel and decry the 'Old Testament', especially on its back pages and through their media writer, who seems to have it in for Ruth Gledhill of the Times - goodness knows why!

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/

When the Church Times commissioned my article, Anglicans Have Betrayed the Jews in July 2005, they disallowed the comments made to me by Canon Andrew White (an Anglican, like them) to the effect that Christians bore some responsibility for the Holocaust.

http://www.zionismontheweb.org/Anglicans_have_betrayed_the_Jews.htm

When I asked why these sentiments were unacceptable to them, they replied that 'Most readers of the Church Times think that the Holocaust was caused by Catholics in Germany', and presumably therefore the Anglican Church could wash their hands of the whole dirty affair.

Oh dear, not so much a 'a mote in one's eye', but 'the blind leading the blind'?

Something for all Christians to ponder at Lent?

Comments

[Gillibrand]

There is a worrying trend in Germany at the moment believing that they have emerged from the shadows of the Second World War. This can be evidenced by statements at the time of the World Cup, and just prior to that by Chanceller Schroeder as well as the recent comedy film about Hitler. It is a licence that can be used in a variety of different ways, and some are evil.

[Huldah]

"When I asked why these sentiments were unacceptable to them, they replied that 'Most readers of the Church Times think that the Holocaust was caused by Catholics in Germany', and presumably therefore the Anglican Church could wash their hands of the whole dirty affair."

Ah, Anglican spokesmen. Never ones to allow the facts to get in the way of their fond beliefs about themselves!