Plenary indulgence for participating in services during the Week of Christian Unity January 18-25 (Manual of Indulgences, USCCB)

"The way to pick your friends is not to ask yourself, 'Do I like So-and-so,' but to ask yourself, 'Would I like to be like So-and-so?' If not, So-and-so is no friend for you."
— Msgr. Ronald Knox

"It is you, O Mary, whose fruit will crush the head of the serpent. It is you, O Jesus, who are this blessed fruit in whom our victory is assured. I give you thanks, my God, for having thus brought me hope."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Advent

When Jews pray the psalms and when Catholics pray the psalms, while they may praying the same text, they are often praying for diametrically opposed outcomes, especially having to do with the exaltation of Israel/Sion. In this sense we do not “share” even the Old Testament.

When Jews pray the psalms and when Catholics pray the psalms, while they may praying the same text, they are often praying for diametrically opposed outcomes, especially having to do with the exaltation of Israel/Sion. In this sense we do not “share” even the Old Testament.

It is for this reason that Judaism unlike other non-Christian religions stands in unique opposition to the Catholic Church. It’s not just that they don’t believe in Jesus, but they received an identity from God that is itself a sign pointing toward something they reject. Christianity is not just an ideological opponent, its very existence creates for them a perpetual identity crisis at the most foundational level of their Jewishness.

"To see these elderly women weep, and not feel that this is something intolerable, is a sign of a world that has grown heartless... [I]n contemplating the meaning of our lives, perhaps the most decisive question we can ask is, 'Do I have a heart?'?
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

"In a word, if love reigns in our heart, we become, in a complete and luminous way, the persons we are meant to be, for every human being is created above all else for love. In the deepest fibre of our being, we were made to love and to be loved."
— Pope Francis, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ