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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Jews who have joined the Catholic Church, but retain their Jewish cultural/ethnic/religious identity, how have you done so? Do you go to mass and synagogue? Do you find yourself welcome in both communities?[/quote] You can’t be both Catholic and Jewish. [/quote] You can be Catholic by faith and Jewish by ethnic background. Here are some Jewish converts to Catholics explaining that in their own words: https://chnetwork.org/converts/jewish/[/quote] Okay, but it wouldn't be appropriate for a Jew who has abandoned their faith to go back to a Jewish synagogue.[/quote] Much ink has been spilled on the topic since the Spanish Inquisition. Orthodox authorities generally agree that they are welcome back, so long as they don't proselytize. [/quote] I'm pretty sure the Spanish Inquisition was about the Moors in Europe being converted. Look up the history of the Moor people. [/quote] The Spanish Inquisition was about both the Moors and the Jews being converted. Basically, everyone had to be Catholic or die.[/quote] Not true. I recommend Rodney Stark's "Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History" for the truth.[/quote] I'm not going to read an apologist book about the Catholic Church. I'm not holding some deep-seated hatred for Catholicism. Priests and nuns did some truly heroic things during the Holocaust. But the Inquisition was forced conversion of non-Catholics to Catholicism. The torture is pretty well historically documented.[/quote] Rodney Stark is not a Catholic. He's a college professor at Baylor. The Inquisition was absolutely not forced conversion of non-Catholics. There's an edifying chapter in the book about what the Inquisition really involved. [/quote] I didn't say the author was Catholic. I said it sounds like an apologist book. What part of the Inquisition was not forced conversion of non-Catholics? The autos de fe? The rack?[/quote] From https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/nobody-expects-the-spanish-inquisition-to-be-explained-fairly/ "But as Stark makes clear, by the standards of the day, the Spanish Inquisition was actually fairly innocuous. Torture, for instance, was a standard way of getting confessions at the time, and while the Inquisition employed it, it did so within strict guidelines secular courts often lacked. In fact, the Inquisition’s reputation was so much better than that of the secular courts that defendants would try to get their trials moved to an Inquisition venue." From https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/16/artsandhumanities.internationaleducationnews "Cardinal Georges Cottier, a Vatican theologian, said: "You can't ask pardon for deeds which aren't there." European and North American historians have been searching the archives since a Vatican conference on the Inquisition in 1998. Their findings support the recent theories of some independent historians that the Spanish Inquisition has been exaggerated into a kind of legend."[/quote]
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