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> Christianity has always been a racist religion:
>"Oh, race of Franks, race from across the mountains, race chosen and beloved [...]"
>"the kingdom of the Persians, an accursed race, a race utterly alienated from God [...]"
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https://www2.cbn.com/article/church/pope-urban-iis-speech-calling-first-crusade
https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/105244/list-of-jewish-popes-cardinals
> Church historians universally agree that there were only two valid popes of Jewish ethnicity.
St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles and first pope.
St. Evaristus, the fourth successor of St. Peter.
Pope Gregory VI, 1045-1045
Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1084. Gregory VII, also known as Hildebrand, was one of the greatest popes, attacking various abuses that had arisen in the papacy.
As for cardinals, there is a small number of Princes of the Church throughout the Ages of the Church.
Cardinal Pietro Pierleone was of Jewish heritage. He actually became the antipope Anacletus II from 1130-1138. One of his great-great grandparents, Benedictus, maybe Baruch in Hebrew, was a Jew who converted into Christianity.
Cardinal Lรกszlรณ Paskai O.F.M. (8 May 1927 โ 17 August 2015) was born to Jewish parents who had converted to the Roman Catholic faith before the birth of their son and who later were murdered during The Holocaust.
Cardinal Jean-Marie Aron Lustiger was a French cardinal and was born into a Jewish family. He died on August 5, 2007.
Cardinal John O'Connor was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1920, the fourth of five children of Thomas J. O'Connor, and Dorothy Magdalene (nรฉe Gomple) O'Connor. Thomas was a painter and Dorothy was the daughter of Gustave Gumpel, a kosher butcher and Jewish rabbi. He died in August, 2000.
Cardinal Michael F. Czerny SJ was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, on 18 July 1946. His mother's family were Jewish converts to Catholicism.