Rav Avigdor Miller on How Should We React to the News that the Pope Made a Jewish Nun a Saint
Brooklyn Torah Gazette | December 08, 2024
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Rav Avigdor Miller on How Should We React to the News that the Pope Made a Jewish Nun a Saint

Brooklyn Torah Gazette | June 27, 2025

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 (Jewish sinners) 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.

Reprinted from the Parshas Vayeitzei email of Toras Avigdor, - Tape #641 – May

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 (Jewish sinners) 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.

Reprinted from the Parshas Vayeitzei email of Toras Avigdor, - Tape #641 – May

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