Syncretism Masquerading as Dialogue: Polish Prelate’s Interfaith Event Exposed
The EWTN News portal (January 21, 2026) reports on the 29th Day of Judaism in the Polish “Catholic Church,” featuring speeches by “Cardinal” Grzegorz Ryś and Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich in Płock. The event included joint prayers at a former synagogue, commemorative walks through Jewish historical sites, and exhibitions about the Holocaust. Ryś claimed that “all Church documents since the Second Vatican Council” demonstrate connections between Christianity and “living Judaism,” while Schudrich invoked Holocaust survivor Marian Turski’s warnings about silence enabling hatred. This spectacle of religious indifferentism under the guise of combating antisemitism constitutes a frontal assault on Catholic integrity.
Betrayal of Christ’s Exclusive Salvific Mission
The event’s theme – “Your people will be my people and your God my God” (Ruth 1:16) – constitutes blasphemous appropriation of Scripture to suggest theological parity between Catholicism and Judaism. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) declares Christ’s kingship over “not only Catholic nations or those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church… but also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (§18). Ryś’s call to “listen to each other” as equals denies the Church’s divine mandate to proclaim Christ as the way, truth, and life (John 14:6).
“The whole history of salvation boils down to this: God gathers people, and the evil one scatters them. You will never be happy if you want to be happy alone.”
This naturalistic reduction of salvation history to mere social cohesion omits the essential truth: Christ gathers through His Church, outside which there is no salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The Syllabus of Errors condemns as heresy the notion that “men may find the way of eternal salvation and arrive at eternal salvation in the observance of any religion whatever” (Proposition 16).
Post-Conciliar Apostasy Institutionalized
Ryś’s appeal to “all Church documents since the Second Vatican Council” reveals the modernist foundation of this sacrilege. The pre-conciliar Magisterium consistently condemned religious indifferentism, as seen in Pius IX’s declaration: “It is an error to believe that Protestants and other non-Catholics can enter eternal life if they have lived according to the dictates of their conscience” (Allocution Singulari quadam, 1854). Contrast this with the event’s “joint prayers” – strictly forbidden by Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code:
“It is not permitted to Catholics to be present at or participate in any way in non-Catholic religious services.”
The “Museum of Mazovian Jews” exhibition in a desecrated former synagogue exemplifies how conciliarism facilitates the de facto veneration of false worship. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili sane (1907) condemned the proposition that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Proposition 60) – precisely the evolutionary heresy promoted through these interfaith events.
Grave Omissions and Subversive Agendas
While Schudrich invoked Holocaust victims, the participants remained silent about:
- The Catholic duty to evangelize Jews, as commanded by Our Lord (Matthew 28:19)
- The Church’s perennial teaching that Jewish rejection of Christ constitutes collective spiritual blindness (Romans 11:25)
- The Talmud’s blasphemies against Our Lord and His Mother
The presence of Israeli Ambassador Yaakov Finkelstein underscores the event’s political dimension – an attempt to legitimize Zionist claims through ecclesiastical endorsement. Pius X warned Zionist leader Theodor Herzl in 1904: “We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem, but we could never sanction it… The Jews have not recognized Our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people.”
Structural Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
Sister Katarzyna Kowalska’s description of Christians and Jews “sitting at one table” to discuss “promises made to the chosen people” constitutes outright heresy. The Council of Florence (1441) dogmatically defined that “the Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church… cannot share in eternal life.” The Day of Judaism institutionalizes the conciliar sect’s betrayal of this truth.
The event’s timing – preceding the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – reveals the deeper agenda: equating the one true Church with heretical sects and non-Christian religions. Such syncretism fulfills Pius IX’s warning in the Syllabus of Errors against those who claim “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Proposition 80).
Conclusion: Return to Catholic Integrity
This blasphemous spectacle demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of Catholic mission. Where the true Church would call Jews to conversion, the anti-church facilitates their continued rejection of Christ. Where saints like Peter Canisius and Alphonsus Liguori preached unambiguously against Jewish unbelief, modern apostates organize interfaith photo opportunities. As the apostolic warning states: “If anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be anathema!” (Galatians 1:9). The only authentic response to such events is uncompromising condemnation and fervent prayer for the restoration of Christ’s true Church.
Source:
Cardinal Ryś: Catholics and Jews must ‘listen to each other’ to combat hate (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.01.2026