• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I have no idea what the dude is smoking. The Catholic church is explicitly against zionism. They wanted Jerusalem to be an international city.

    Pope Pius X stated "We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem—but we could never sanction it. The soil of Jerusalem, if it was not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church I cannot tell you anything different.

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      11 months ago

      This was over a hundred years ago, and they’ve changed their tone significantly since then.

      Here’s a good paper on the modern history of the Catholic church’s approach.

      One thing I’ll grant is not all Catholics believe this. But then they also don’t really have an answer to dispensationalism. More on that here (this source is far from unbiased but the historicity is accurate).

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        11 months ago

        I read through the paper and it really made the issue clear as mud.

        Can you define what “this” is? Because the one thing I have learned is Zionism can mean something slightly different to catholics.