Conservative rabbis ‘dismayed’ over Catholic prayer

Reuters brings us this piece about the reaction of Conservative Rabbis to the new Good Friday prayer. (Infobit: Conservative Judaism, or Masorti Judaism is a movement in Jewry, started in Germany, which reacted against the more radical liberalism of the Reform movement. Members of the movement represent, roughly speaking, a middle ground between Orthodox Jews and Reform Jews.)

This paragraph is more of what we noted yesterday, non-Catholic commentators showing the world how Catholic doctrine has developed:

Reforms in the 1960s led to the church dropping references to conversion of Jews in Good Friday prayers and were seen by many Jews and Catholics as “affirming that God’s covenant with the Jewish people has never been revoked,” the rabbis said. [emphasis ours]

Of course, these Rabbis are not alone. This is the creed of most liberal Catholics. But they are both wrong. Presumably, by “the covenant with the Jewish people,” they are referring to the Mosaic Covenant, the good, holy, and divine ordinance given on Mount Sinai. That covenant is over, according to St. Paul, and to the Magisterium of the Church. If, on the other hand, they mean the covenant made with Abraham (which was not with “the Jews” but with an uncircumcised Abraham), then there remains one problem: That covenant passed into the New Testament, being fulfilled and continued in Christ. (See Galatians 3, epsecially vs. 7-8 and 16-20.) Therefore, it does not exist in any form of Judaism today, but in the Catholic Church.