Jesuit Knows It Better than Jesus
Christ’ word to the the Canaanite woman, that he is sent to the lost sheep of Israel (Mt 15), is “stymied and callous,” believes Father Antonio Spadaro SJ, 57.
The editor-in-chief of LaCiviltacattolica.com, a Francis’ ally, wrote on IlFattoQuotidiano.it (August 20) that "mercy is not for her" and that Christ’s conversation was marked by the cultural "rigidity" of the time.
Spadaro is convinced that Christ "responds mockingly and disrespectfully to the poor woman" and "appears as if he was blinded by nationalism and theological rigor."
The woman had "to ‘convert’ him to himself" and just as her daughter "Jesus, too, appears healed, and finally shows himself free, from the rigidity from the dominant theological, political and cultural elements of his time."
Spadaro's know-it-all attitude is not atypical for a semi-literate Vatican-II-Jesuit.
Picture: Antonio Spadaro © wikicommons CC BY-SA, #newsIikpystqwe
The editor-in-chief of LaCiviltacattolica.com, a Francis’ ally, wrote on IlFattoQuotidiano.it (August 20) that "mercy is not for her" and that Christ’s conversation was marked by the cultural "rigidity" of the time.
Spadaro is convinced that Christ "responds mockingly and disrespectfully to the poor woman" and "appears as if he was blinded by nationalism and theological rigor."
The woman had "to ‘convert’ him to himself" and just as her daughter "Jesus, too, appears healed, and finally shows himself free, from the rigidity from the dominant theological, political and cultural elements of his time."
Spadaro's know-it-all attitude is not atypical for a semi-literate Vatican-II-Jesuit.
Picture: Antonio Spadaro © wikicommons CC BY-SA, #newsIikpystqwe