Pope JP2

[svenhag]

Catholic or Jewish?

http://www.metronews.co.uk/news/article/0/346_the_pope_was_jewish_says_historian.html
Is this matrilineal heritage something that is known to Catholics?

Could he have been a “crypto Jew”?

And what of Opus Dei? Is that a front, as the following web site comment suggests?

Opus Dei was founded in 1928 by Jose Maria Escrivá de Balaguer, a crypto-Jew whose surname was originally “Escriba” which means “Scribe.” In 1982, Pope John Paul II made Opus Dei a “personal prelature,” a privilege conferred upon no other religious order. In other words, this organization, founded by a crypto-Jew, is accountable to no one but the Pope. That might not be a problem per se, except there is convincing evidence that Pope John Paul II was one of the many Jewish popes of the Catholic Church, including the present Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger). After a record-breaking canonization process of 27 years, Pope John Paul II declared the Jewish Escrivá a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.