This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
In the winter of 1077, Emperor Henry IV journeyed to Canossa near Reggio nell’Emilia as a simple penitent. On January 28, after waiting for three days, he received absolution from Pope Gregory VII. The name Canossa thus became associated with submission to the church.
The Rev Naim Ateek, head of Sabeel - a Palestinian Christian group identified with liberation theology, but which frequently descends into antisemitism - has expressed support for an organization known for its Christian sympathies: Hamas.
Juan Miguel Muñoz of El País writes here about Tzipi Livni getting the thumbs down, at least for now, from Shas in her attempts to form a government in Israel. There isn’t a particular quote I could translate that would serve as a good example, but Muñoz’s article is suffused with disgust at the influence Rabbi Ovadia Yosef exercises over Shas in particular and in Israeli politics in general.
Amidst the uproar over the dinner which a number of religious groups - the Mennonites, the Quakers, the Council on American-Islamic Relations among them - held with the Iranian President (dubbed by some protesters as the “feast with the beast”), it’s important to remember that other Christian denominations were deeply troubled by the event.
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