Only twenty times in the history of the Catholic Church has a Pope convened a General or Ecuмenical Council. As one would expect, therefore, the matter under discussion at such meetings is hardly trivial. With the Pope’s approval, and under his guidance and sanction, the prelates of an Ecuмenical Council, assembled by the Holy Father from the whole Catholic world, may define dogmas which are infallible in point of Catholic teaching. They may also issue edicts, counsels, and decrees which are universally binding on all the faithful.

Although the problem of the infidel Jєω is not foreign to the discussions of any of the Church’s twenty Councils, there is one Council in particular, the Fourth Lateran, held in the year 1215, which treats of the Jєωs at detailed length. Explicitly, and for all time, the Council drafted what might be called a Christian “bill of non-rights” for the Jєωs. As the Fourth Lateran Council’s legislations are codified and come down to us, these Jєω-restraining laws comprise chapters 67, 68, 69, and 70 of the acts of the Council.

Chapter 67 hits at the heart of Jєωιѕн power in any Christian society — the bulging Jєωιѕн pocketbook. It is entitled, “Concerning the Usuries of the Jєωs,” and the text provides the mechanics for a total Christian boycott of any Jєωιѕн merchant or commercial agent who exacts unreasonable fees from Christians. A happy adjunct to this chapter is the provision that if any Jєω should come into possession of real property once owned by a Christian, he will be required to pay taxes on this property to the local parish priest.

In the next chapter, the prelates of the Council provide a most commendable remedy for the dangers of social intercourse with the Jєωs. The pertinent section reads, “Lest, therefore, excesses of this often-condemned intermingling should have any further excuse for spreading, under cover of such an error, we decree that Jєωs of either sex, in every Christian province, and at all times, be distinguished in public from other people by a difference of dress, as we also read they were commanded to do by Moses (Lev. 19). Moreover, in the days of lamentation and of Our Lord’s Passion, let them not at all come out in public, because some of them on such days (as we are told) are not ashamed to walk around in splendid attire, and are not afraid to mock at the Christians who, commemorating the Passion, show forth signs of lamentation.”

The Fourth Lateran Council’s 69th chapter is a masterpiece of governmental discretion: “It is most absurd that a blasphemer of Christ should exercise power over Christians, and inasmuch as the Council of Toledo prudently decreed concerning this matter, we, on account of the audacity of those who have disobeyed, renew its decree in this chapter, forbidding that the Jєωs be given public offices, because under such a pretext they molest the Christians. But if anyone should commit to them such an office, let him, after a warning, be punished befittingly by a provincial council (which we decree should be held every year). As for the Jєω who received the office, he should be denied all communion with Christians, both in commerce and other matters, until whatever he had acquired from the Christians, on the occasion of receiving the office, be converted, accordingly as the bishop of the diocese should provide, into the use of the poor among the Christians. Also, he should renounce with shame the office which he irreverently assumed ... ”

Finally, that most delicate of all the Church’s Jєωιѕн problems is generally dealt with by chapter 70. It is the perpetual puzzle of the Jєωιѕн convert to Christianity. How much can we trust him? What standard can be imposed to determine his sincerity? How can we keep him from lapsing into the perfidy of Judaism?

Quoting the principle that “it is less evil not to know the way of the Lord than, having known it, to turn back,” the Council recommends, without further elaboration, that those in authority over Jєωιѕн converts may help them to become truly Catholic by “the imposition of salutary constraint.”

Todays secular Jєωs aren't necessarily enemies of Jesus-- they reject the entire deposit of faith including OT.....  

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Todays secular Jєωs aren't necessarily enemies of Jesus-- they reject the entire deposit of faith including OT.....  

Someone down-thumbed you, but you're actually quite correct. They not only reject God the Son, but they also reject God the Father. They follow the тαℓмυd, which is rabbinical Judaism, not the faith of Abraham. Their god is money and power. They're quite simply some of the most disgusting people on earth. And if that's "anti-semitic," too bad. I won't lose a second's sleep for having said it.

They're quite simply some of the most disgusting people on earth. And if that's "anti-semitic," too bad. I won't lose a second's sleep for having said it.

I live in New York, so I'm literally surrounded by Jєωs every day. Some Jєωs are hideously ugly, others look entirely normal... Some Jєωs have BO; some don't. Some Jєωesses are outwardly very beautiful; some are very ugly...