Shimonchaim,
I'll agree that the RCC was hostile to the Jews in the past.
Then again, there was that Second Vatical Council, and Pope John Paul did make some inroads regarding relations with the Jews. I read that he went to Israel and placed a note in one of the holes in the Western Wall apologizing for the rcc's past treatment of Jews.
Last year, when I went to a singles Shabbat dinner, a speech was given by a Rabbi who had just met with the priests/cardinals at the Vatican. He relayed a very interesting story.
There was a Jewish family in Poland during WWII. They asked their Gentile neighbors to look after their boy after the Nazis took them away, and to send him back to his family if they were killed (which they were). As promised, the neighbors looked after the boy, grew to love him, and wanted to adopt him, and they never heard back from the parents, who were killed by the Nazis. So one day, the neighbors decided to have the boy baptized. When they told their story to the young priest, the priest refused to baptize the boy, and insisted that they return him to his relatives.
That young priest was the late Pope John Paul. The boy is now an Orthodox Jew living in Canada.
I also read another story of the Pope as a young man sheltering a young Jewish girl who escaped from a concentration/labor camp. The woman now lives in Israel, and was reunited with the Pope in Italy on one occasion.
Anyway, there will always be anti-semites. That will never change. The important thing is that we never again go like sheep to our slaughter, and that we be proud of being Jewish (and I'm not talking about being one of those moonbatty liberal reformed Jews). Chaim actually said on one of the Ask JTF shows, that G-d would be behind us more if we adopted Torah true Judaim, rather than the reformed variety.
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