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For centuries, the Church, in conceit, arrogance and ignorance, has claimed that she alone was the true Israel, that she had replaced the ancient covenant people. (They certainly didn’t claim to be Jewish during the Holocaust!) The Church taught emphatically that the physical people of Israel were
Cardinal Eugène Tisserant was recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" in 2021, but he was also an important figure during the Second Vatican Council.
During the final session of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, Pope Paul VI intervened to shut down discussion of priestly celibacy, reserving the question to himself.