Rabbi Yehuda Levin is about to become hated twice by the media, once for being a conservative Jew and once for saying this:
“I understand that it is very important to fill the pews of the Catholic Church not with cultural Catholics and left-wingers who are helping to destroy the Catholic Church and corrupt the values of the Catholic Church.” This corruption, he said, “has a trickle-down effect to every single religious community in the world.”
“What’s the Pope doing? He’s trying to bring the traditionalists back in because they have a lot of very important things to contribute the commonweal of Catholicism.
“Now, if in the process, he inadvertently includes someone who is prominent in the traditionalist movement who happens to say very strange things about the Holocaust, is that a reason to throw out the baby with the bathwater and start to condemn Pope Benedict? Absolutely not.”
Thompson points out that this isn’t the norm:
Rabbi Irwin Kula – a less conservative figure than Levin (not difficult) – also thinks that the reaction to the Williamson business was “outrageously over the top”. I’m not suggesting that Rabbis Levin and Kula represent the majority opinion among Jews; but nor, I suspect, do the professional offence-takers of the ADL et al.
I’ll say what I’ve said before, do you think that Williamson would have lost his seminary if the St. Pius X excommunications hadn’t been lifted? I think not. The media reporting on this outside of Thompson’s site has been atrocious and error ridden; almost as if the motive was to do damage to the Church instead of reporting the news. How about that!
