A Copernican revolution.(Catholic-Jewish relations )

For over nineteen centuries, the Christian world had denigrated Judaism and Jews, presenting that faith as an obsolete precursor to the one, true Christian faith while viewing the Jewish people as a deicide people, exiled from their homeland and scattered to the four winds of the world by God as punishment for their rejection of Jesus as the Messiah and son of God. This malignant theology that derived from Patristic interpretations of the New Testament, was augmented by the Church Fathers such as Justin Martyr and John Chrysostom and most especially by Augustine, the greatest of t