ADL questions US bishops' change in Catechism

September 15, 2008

The American bishops have authorized a change in the US Catholic Catechism for Adults, on the sensitive issue of the Old Covenant. The change is designed to avoid potential misunderstandings about the Catholic doctrine that Jesus Christ offers the only means to salvation. That doctrine is a point of contention for Jewish leaders.

The old passage said:

Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through Moses remains eternally valid for them.

The amended passage says:

To the Jewish people, whom God first chose to hear his word, 'belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ.

 

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Further information:

• Catechism edit 'troubling,' Jewish leaders say (Washington Post)