Adelaide – The Archbishop of Adelaide has told Catholics they should not tell Jewish jokes or use the Jewish name Yahweh in readings and songs.
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In a pastoral letter to priests, Archbishop Philip Wilson has asked for a substitute word such as Lord to be used instead of the Jewish sacred name.
Archbishop Wilson says Catholics must be respectful and sensitive towards Jewish people.
“In the letter it says that what will happen is people who are involved as experts in these areas will make changes so there will be appropriate words that can be used,” he said.
“It won’t be confusing if you use the word Lord as a substitute or another word as a substitute, then that will work really well.
“My sense about this is we have to be especially careful about the way that we talk about the Jewish people because of the way that they’ve been persecuted and treated for over a thousand years, and especially during the Holocaust in the Second World War,” he said.
A Tzaddik here. I nominate him for next Pope. At last someone who gets it.
All jokes or just not the funny ones?
a rabbi & a priest were sitting at a bar – when in walked a…never mind…
To Mr. Anonymous:
No need posting your comments anymore. We all know that you understand the Gentiles, care about, defend, and love them.
Very touching.
Very nice to hear!
Ah gezundt oyf zayn kappeleh!
A rabbi, a priest, and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What is this, some kind of joke?”
if the opposite were true, what would we do between mincha and maariv.