The Core Problem
The core problem with anti-Semitism
vis à vis the Church,
is not that Pius XII was “silent,”
nor that Pope Benedict (XVI) is not “forthcoming”
For the core problem
is not that there are traces of a lethal virus
in the “software” of the Church
The core problem is that there
is a virulent and lethal virus
in the core “hardware” of the Church
The core problem,
with anti-Semitism
(vis à vis the Church),
is that it would seem to be
endemic and intrinsic
to the bedrock of the Church,
and intertwined with the Church
core canon, core theology, and core narrative
