The EWTN portal reports that the United States Conference of Catholic “Bishops” has issued a video message through “Bishop” Joseph Bambera of Scranton, chairman of their ecumenical committee, heralding “deep spiritual bonds” between Catholics and Jews on the occasion of Yom Kippur. The “prelate” cites the Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostra Aetate as the foundation for this “friendship,” calling for the rejection of “anti-Semitism” and mutual “understanding.” This public act of religious indifferentism, emanating from the highest levels of the conciliar structure, constitutes a formal abandonment of the Church’s divine mandate to convert all nations to the true Faith, replacing the missio ad gentes with a naturalistic dialogue of equals.
The Heresy of “Shared Patrimony” and the Denial of Supernatural Order
The assertion that the relationship between the Church and the synagogue is “rooted in the deep spiritual bonds” between “two ancient religions” is a direct contradiction of the dogmatic truth that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The “shared patrimony” of scriptural texts does not create a spiritual bond; rather, the Jewish rejection of the Messiah — the very fulfillment of those Scriptures — places them in a state of obstinate infidelity. St. Paul teaches with apostolic authority: “For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery… that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles should come in” (Rom 11:25). This blindness is not a “bond” but a tragic rupture healed only by conversion to Christ.
The conciliar “bishop” speaks of “reflection, repentance, and renewal” as generic religious virtues, completely severing repentance from its necessary object: faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Yom Kippur, as observed by modern Judaism, is a ritual of atonement without the Mediator, without the High Priest, without the Blood of the New Covenant. To validate this as a spiritually efficacious act for those who deny the Divinity of Christ is to deny the words of Our Lord: “No man cometh to the Father, but by Me” (Jn 14:6). This is the haeresis maxima of religious indifferentism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 16, 17, 18): “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation… Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion.” The substitution of “Judaism” for “Protestantism” changes nothing of the condemned error.
Nostra Aetate: The Magna Charta of Apostasy
The explicit invocation of Nostra Aetate as the doctrinal basis for this “friendship” exposes the conciliar revolution’s rupture with Tradition. This declaration, promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1965, teaches that the Jews “should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God,” directly contradicting the constant Magisterium. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, proclaims: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Kingship of Christ is universal and exclusive; there is no “dual covenant” theology in Catholic doctrine. The Council of Florence defined: “It firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church… can have a share in life eternal… unless before the end of life they have been added to the Church.”
Nostra Aetate embodies the Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 59): “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places.” By suggesting the Old Covenant retains salvific validity independent of the New, the conciliar sect denies the economy of redemption and the necessity of the Church as the sole Ark of Salvation.
Violation of the Social Kingship of Christ
Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (provided in the context), establishes that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” and that “rulers of states… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The USCCB’s message, addressed to the civil order through the medium of a public video, fails utterly to proclaim the Kingship of Christ over the Jewish people and over the State of Israel. Instead, it offers “friendship” and “dialogue” — the language of Masonic secularism, not Catholic royalty.
The Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 55, 77, 78, 79, 80) condemns the errors that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” and that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” By engaging in interreligious “dialogue” on equal terms, the conciliar hierarchy implicitly accepts the Masonic principle of the separation of Church and State, reducing the Church to one “faith community” among many. This is the laicism Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society.”
The “Anti-Semitism” Weapon: Silencing the Gospel
The mandatory ritual denunciation of “anti-Semitism in all its forms” functions as a theological gag order. In the conciliar lexicon, “anti-Semitism” has been expanded to encompass any vigorous proclamation of the Gospel to Jews, any citation of the Patristic and Magisterial teaching on Jewish perfidy (perfidia Judaica), or any defense of the Church’s traditional disciplina regarding Jewish converts. St. John Chrysostom, Doctor of the Church, preached: “The synagogue is not only a brothel and a theater; it is also a den of robbers and a lodging for wild beasts… God has abandoned it.” The Council of Toledo (633) mandated that Jews who refused conversion be separated from Christian society. The conciliar “bishop” calls this “hatred”; the Saints call it zeal for souls and fidelity to truth.
This capitulation fulfills the Freemasonic strategy outlined in the Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita: to infiltrate the Church and replace the militant Church with a dialoguing NGO. The “bishop” Bambera’s greeting “Gmar Chatima Tov” — a liturgical blessing of a false religion — is an act of practical idolatry, communicatio in sacris forbidden by divine and ecclesiastical law (Canon 1258, 1917 Code). It signals to the world that the conciliar sect no longer believes “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Sedevacantist Confirmation: The See is Vacant, the Hierarchy Apostate
The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file demonstrates that a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). The line of claimants from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has publicly taught heresies: religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass. The USCCB is not an organ of the Catholic Church but an administrative body of the conciliar sect, the Church of the New Advent, the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. Its “bishops,” ordained in the invalid Paul VI rite or consecrated by men who accepted the new rite, possess no jurisdiction, no mission, no authority. They are intrusi, hirelings who flee when the wolf comes (Jn 10:12).
The “False Fatima Apparitions” file correctly identifies the Fatima narrative as a tool to “divert attention from modernist apostasy within the Church since the beginning of the 20th century.” The conciliar hierarchy’s obsession with “Jewish-Catholic dialogue” serves the same diversionary function: it focuses the faithful on horizontal, humanitarian “bonds” while the vertical bond to the Triune God is severed by heresy. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, persists in the catacombs, in the chapels of validly ordained priests (pre-1968 rites), preserving the depositum fidei intact, awaiting the restoration of the Hierarchy and the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Conclusion: No “Bonds” with the Synagogue of Satan
The Apocalypse speaks plainly: “I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan” (Apoc 2:9; 3:9). The conciliar “bishops” call this “deep spiritual bonds.” The chasm is infinite. The only true “friendship” the Church can offer the Jewish people is the charity of truth: “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:31). Every other word is betrayal, apostasy, and the broad road to perdition. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
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Ahead of Yom Kippur, U.S. bishops highlight ‘deep spiritual bonds’ between Catholics, Jews (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 19.09.2026