An article on this site yesterday affirmed that Jesus was a Jew. Quite right. It is not a matter of debate, nor even of serious discussion. It is a simple fact: scriptural, historical, and theological. But it is also not a controversy worth pretending exists.
The recent attempts to manufacture one, usually from internet personalities of dubious seriousness, tell us far more about the modern appetite for outrage than about Christianity itself. No Catholic who attended the liturgies of Holy Week last week could plausibly be confused on the matter. One would have heard, more than once, the Gospel proclaim Christ moving within the life of Israel: observing its feasts, teaching in its Temple, fulfilling its Scriptures. Holy Mother Church does not hide this; she repeats it constantly.
