The Jewish Child the Pope Refused to Give Back — The Mortara Affair

The Jewish Child the Pope Refused to Give Back — The Mortara Affair

The Mortara Affair. In 1858, papal police took a six-year-old Jewish boy from his Bologna home over a secret baptism. The modern world called it kidnapping. However, the boy later became a priest who defended his Catholic upbringing under Pope Pius IX, whom he called father. Full story here. https://christtheking.info/catholic-resources-on-adversus-judaeos/selections-of-edgardo-mortaras-writings-on-the-jews/

What Judaism's Greatest Rabbi Actually Wrote About Jesus Christ (Uncensored)

For centuries, the exalted Jewish Rabbi Maimonides' verdict on Jesus was omitted from many printed editions of his law code. We restore the uncensored text — his denial of the Virgin Birth — and show how a Catholic friar used Maimonides' own words to argue Christ is the Messiah. https://christtheking.info/catholic-resources-on-adversus-judaeos/

What the Church Actually Taught About Jews | Pope Paul IV's Cum Nimis Absurdum (1555)

Pope Paul IV's 1555 bull Cum Nimis Absurdum established the Roman Jewish Ghetto and restricted Jewish rights. What was the Church's actual theological reasoning? Full scriptural, patristic, scholastic & magisterial analysis. https://christtheking.info/catholic-resources-on-adversus-judaeos/

The Prodigal Son’s Elder Brother: The Jews Outside the Feast

The Prodigal Son's elder brother, angry at the feast for his repentant sibling, has long been read by the Fathers as a figure of Israel at the threshold of the New Covenant. Augustine, Cyril of Alexandria, Lapide, and Romans 11 examined. Part III of the Elder Brother trilogy. https://christtheking.info/catholic-resources-on-adversus-judaeos/

The Church Inherits Israel's Titles: 1 Peter 2:9–10

St. Peter takes Israel's own covenant titles from Exodus 19 and Hosea — chosen race, royal priesthood, holy nation — from the Jews and hands them to the Church. A Catholic look at 1 Peter 2:9–10 with Scripture, the Fathers, Lapide, and the Magisterium who read it the same way. https://christtheking.info/catholic-resources-on-adversus-judaeos/