The Boston Globe, April 4th, 2007
IN "PASSOVER and the Passion (Op-ed, April 2), James Carroll suggests that "Christians revise their relationship" to the Passion story that is at the heart of the Easter celebration. Carroll is asking people of conscience to move in precisely the wrong direction. The point, as Carroll correctly notes, is not to blame "the Jews" for the crucifixion. The point, as the Catholic Church and other Christian authorities have asserted for centuries, is to identify ourselves with the crowd calling for Jesus' blood. For "the Jews," we must read "us"; for Pontius Pilate, I must read "me." This is no mode...
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