Is it right to create a 'Hebrew Catholic Rite' that reintroduces Jewish laws and customs?
Robert Sungenis calls a Hebrew Catholic Rite totally wrong, holding that the sacrifices and circumcision are over and that the Council of Florence was clear on it. He argues those customs existed to bring Christ into the world, a purpose now fulfilled, and calls efforts by some Jewish converts to reintroduce them prideful and contrary to Church teaching.
A viewer asks whether it is a good idea, or already condemned, for someone (Gideon Lazar) to create a Hebrew Catholic rite introducing Jewish laws and customs into the Church.
Answer
This is totally wrong. Some Jewish converts think they can bring back Hebrew customs, circumcision and the like, into the Catholic faith, as Roy Schoeman and others have wanted to. Judaism was once a religion that glorified God, but it no longer is; the sacrifices are over, circumcision is over, and the Council of Florence was crystal clear on that. Those things had one reason to exist, to bring Jesus Christ to the world, and that has been done, so we have no recourse to Jewish ceremonies or customs anymore. To me it is prideful, and it goes against what the Catholic Church has taught; there is no reason for it to exist.