Saturday, February 7, 2026

Dilexi Te – A Root of Anti-Semitism?

Pope Leo XIV's 1st Encyclical


"Now I am going to make the synagogue of Satan--those who profess to be Jews, but are liars, because they are no such thing--I will make them come and fall at your feet and admit that you are the people that I love."  Rev.  3:9  


After the destruction of the Jewish temple in the year 70, the Jewish community was split between the synagogue Jews and the Christian Jews.  There was hostility between them as indicated by John’s book of Revelation and other scriptural passages.

Does Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical serve as a follow-up to Leo XIII’s inaugural Encyclical on social justice, Rerum Novarum 1891, or simply a demonstration of a root of anti-semitism? 

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