I actually wasn’t sure where to start or how to approach this essay. My notes and list of problematic quotes taken from the document alone ran to almost 16 pages.
In what could only be called an astonishing feat, the Vatican’s note A Journey of Hope, subtitled Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in the Light of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate, manages, in almost every single one of its 60 paragraphs, to disqualify itself from being the work of the Catholic Church.
Sixty years after this reprehensibly heretical document was foisted upon Christendom, the Vatican has now, unwittingly, provided us with an unusually candid description of exactly why Nostra Aetate, and the beast that spawned it, is not Catholic in any way, shape, or form.
Next time some Novus Ordite clown wants to tell you that there is no break with the preconciliar Magisterium, hand them this essay.
A Journey of Hope is too lazy even to pretend that it has anything in common with actual preconciliar Catholicism. The only time it makes a weak and confusing attempt is when it tells us that “God’s covenant with the Jewish people is irrevocable, and this continually challenges the Church. This does not mean, for Christians, that there are two paths to salvation or that the covenant with the Jewish people runs parallel to the Christian way of salvation: the Church teaches that Christ is the one and only Redeemer” [13], but then fails to explain the purpose of this other “irrevocable covenant” or to call for the conversion of the Jews.
As the title of this essay says: top-grade horse dung.
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