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Reflections on Covenant and Mission - Footnotes Preface 1. Second Vatican Council, Nostra Aetate “1965), 4. 2. John Paul II, “Address to the Jewish Community in Mainz, West Germany,” November 17,1980. 4. John Paul II, “Address to Jewish Leaders in Miami,” September 11, 1987. 5. Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews: Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration, Nostra Aetate No. 4 “1974), Prologue. 6. Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, Notes on the Correct Way to Present Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Teaching in the Roman Catholic Church “1985), VI, 25. 8. NCCB, God’s Mercy Endures Forever “1988), 31i. 9. Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy, “”Reflections on the Vatican Statement on the Shoah,” Origins 28/2 “May 28, 1998), 31. 10. CRRJ, Notes “1985), VI, 25. 11. Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et Spes “1965), IV, 45, citing Dei Verbum “1965), II, 15. 12. Pope Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi “1975), 18. 13. John Paul II, Redemptoris Missio “1990), 15. 15. Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Dialogue and Proclamation “1991), 2. Note these similar comments from Pope John Paul II, “Mission is a single but complex reality, and it develops in a variety of ways. Among these ways, some have particular importance in the present situation of the church and the world.” Redemptoris Missio “1990), 41. The pope went on to cite these various ways: “Witness” [42-43], “Proclamation” [44=47], “Forming local churches” [48-49], “Ecumenical activity” [50], “Inculturation” [52-54], “Interreligious Dialogue” [55-57], “Promoting Development and Liberation from Oppression,” [58-59]. 17. John Paul II, “Address to Representatives of Jewish Organizations,” March 12, 1979. 18. John Paul II, Ecclesia in America “1999), 50; citing idem, “Address on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” April 6, 1993. 19. CRRJ, Notes “1985), II, 11. At the general audience on December 6, 2000, John Paul II spoke of the partnership among all religious people: “All who seek God with a sincere heart, including those who do not know Christ and his church, contribute under the influence of grace to the building of his kingdom” [Catholic News Service, December 6, 2000]. 20. Walter Cardinal Kasper, “Dominus Iesus.” Address delivered at the 17th meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee, New York, May 1, 2001. 22. CRRJ, “Guidelines” “1974), II. 23. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, One Covenant, Many Religions: Israel, the Church and the World “San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999), 104. “Time of the Gentiles” recalls Luke 21:24’s term for the era after the destruction of the Second Temple. 25. John Paul II, “Address on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” April 6, 1993. 26. Second Vatican Council, Nostra Aetate, 4. 35. Rabbi David Kimhi, known as Radak (Provencal scholar of the late twelfth to early thirteenth centuries) in his comment on Isaiah 42:6. 40. See BT (Babylonia Talmud) Baba Batra 15b. 41. See, for example, the extraordinary struggle of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira to make sense of this in Nehemia Polen, The Holy Fire (New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1994). 43. Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:22a. Variants in the Babylonian Talmud read: “Everyone who destroys a single soul of Israel...” The inclusion of “Israel” is not polemical or exclusive. The phrase means, as the Jerusalem Talmud makes clear, “people.” 49. BT Sanhedrin 56; Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings, Chs. 9 and 10. According to R. David Kimhi this is a further implication of the light that the Jews will bring to the nations: that the nations will learn the seven commandments and will come to abide by them. See his commentary to Isaiah 42:6. 50. Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law), Laws of Repentance 3:5. Also Laws of Kings, 8:11. This is based on the Talmud, BT Sanhedrin 105a. In that chapter, Balaam is noted as a king (obviously a gentile king) who will not be rewarded with life in the world to come. His lack of righteousness is emphasized. It follows therefore that those who are righteous will have a place in that eternal abode. 51. Jerusalem Talmud, Peah 1:1. 52. To remember the four verbs of God’s deliverance in Exodus 6:6-7. 54. Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, “Laws of Gifts to the Poor,” 10:6. 56. Exodus 22:24, Leviticus 25:6, Deuteronomy 23:20 and 23:21. 59. Leviticus 19:32. The Talmud develops these idea particularly in BT Kiddushin 32b-33a. | ||
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