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About Jewish "Conversion"
(quote from the Lemann Brothers)
You have heard it said that an honorable man should not
change his religion...But this maxim is as false as it is cruel, and,
with respect to a Jew who wishes to become Catholic, doubly
false. It is false a first time because for him as for all
who stray and then return, there is honor rather than dishonor in
abandoning error to return to the Truth. It is false a second
time, shamefully false, because a Jew in becoming Catholic does not
change his religion, but fulfils his religion, completes it, crowns
it. The Jew become Catholic is the religious man par
excellence, who has grown into his fullness, as the seed grows
into the flower... The religion was initially patriarchal, that
is, identified with the family of the Patriarchs; then it was enlarged
into a chosen people who were given the beautiful name People of God; and finally, in being universalized it became something even more beautiful, the Kingdom of God,
the Catholic Church which is for all people. This is always the
work of the Eternal, the progression from the less perfect to the more
perfect, from the particular to the general.
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