How Should We React to the News That the Pope Made a Jewish Nun a Saint

QUESTION

How should we react to the news that the Pope made a Jewish nun a saint?

ANSWER

What the Pope does is none of our business. Only it’s a great pity on a Jewish soul that went lost. That’s all.

The saint is now in Gehenom and she is getting the treatment that all the poshei Yisroel get. Because we say, “You want to be a saint? So why weren’t you a frum Jewish woman? You have to forsake your people?”

And therefore, the whole subject is alien to our minds. It’s one more soul that went lost.

So just because she’s a Catholic saint, what of it? And suppose she was a drug addict lying in a cellar, drugged with narcotics, is she any better off? And therefore, it’s a pity on all of them.

TAPE # 641 (May 1987)