Word: jewish
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...Here's the original cast of characters. 6 to 9 A.M, "Morning Sedition": the Jewish comic (Maron), the thoughtful black (Mark Riley), the BBC-sounding British woman (Sue Endicott). 9 A.M. to noon, "Unfiltered": the woman comic (Lizz Winstead, who was also he network's program director), the elder statesman of black rap (Chuck D.), the Jewish lesbian with some radio experience (Rachel Maddow). Noon to 3, "The O'Franken Factor": Franken and NPR refugee Catherine Lanpher. 3 to 7 P.M.: Randi Rhodes ("I'm Jewish, I'm from Brooklyn"), who had built strong ratings in South Florida...
...quite sad and ironic that these religious figures are coming together around such a negative message." HAGAI EL-AD, executive director of gay-rights group Jerusalem Open House, on united protests by Islamic, Jewish and Christian religious leaders against a planned gay festival in Jerusalem...
This is wrong. John Paul II boldly presided over the maturing of political and theological revolutions in Catholicism. Perhaps despite himself, he was a Pope of change, accomplishing two radical shifts--one in the church's attitude toward war and the other in its relationship to the Jewish people. Taken together, those represent the most significant change in church history, and they lay the groundwork for future changes that could well go beyond what this Pope foresaw or even wanted. In each case, John Paul II brought to completion a movement that was begun by his predecessors John XXIII...
...second revolution brought to completion by John Paul II is in the church's relationship to the Jewish people. Again, the shift began with Vatican II. The 1965 declaration Nostra Aetate famously renounced the "Christ killer" slander, the Gospel charge that the Jews are guilty of the murder of Jesus. This was the source of Christian contempt for the Jewish people, a tradition that the Nazis brought to the perverse conclusion of the Holocaust...
...millennium, John Paul II expressed sorrow for the two historic crimes of Christianity--the use of coercion in defense of the truth and the tradition of contempt for the Jewish people. But this Pope did more than say he was sorry. He put in place new structures of belief and practice, affirming peace and advancing tolerance, changing the Roman Catholic Church forever...