The Jewish Week website reports today (October 23, 2011) that a group of European rabbis has called on Pope Benedict XVI to condemn the latest anti-Semitic remarks by a Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop.
The Brussels-based Conference of European Rabbis slammed recent comments by Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson in which he blamed Jews for deicide (that is, the crucifixion of Christ).
Conference President Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt of Moscow called on the Church to "suspend negotiations with extremist Catholic tendencies until it is clear that these groups show a clear commitment to tackling anti-Semitism within their ranks."
In his recent newsletter, Williamson wrote that "only the Jews were the primary agents of the deicide because Pontius Pilate would never have condemned Jesus if the Jews had not asked for blood."
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