His mother, Emilia Wojtyla (nee Kaczorowska), was a Jewess. The Jews consider a person with a Jewish mother to be Jewish.
Here's a webpage about it: http://www.friarsminor.org/xxi5-1.html
This book makes the claim http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...670964-5367619 . It's one of those books that only got past the censors because one of its authors is a Jew.
I also remember hearing this on Frank Weltner's show http://www.ethnicsurvivalkit.com/eth..._main_page.htm
biography: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/pope/bio/early/
I'd say that his actions are by and large consistent with this fact.
As a child, his parents did not share the anti-Jewish sentiment of most Poles. He was very friendly with a Jew of the same age, Jerzy Kluger, who many years later acted as a go-between for the Pope and Israeli officials in the Vatican's official recognition of Israel. He played for a Jewish football team. He was the first pope to visit a synagogue and the first to visit the Aushwitz memorial. In the reconciliation of Jews and Catholics, he called the Jews 'our elder brothers'. He played a large part in 'Vatican II', the biggest step in the corruption of Catholicism for many years.
Of course he has done a lot of things that are above suspicion (the Catholic Church was and is poisoned by the Jews anyway), so probably he is not only pushing things in a Jewish direction as quickly as he can, but is to some extent genuinely split between his Jewish and White halves. Personally I am convinced that he is very corrupt, but even if he wasn't no Jew should be allowed to become a priest, much less Pope.
Some say that Jews have been popes before, although I have not yet taken the time to research this claim. http://members.lycos.co.uk/jloughnan/sec1_15.htm
I also know a half-Jewish Church of England vicar (of a Jewish father). His wife and family did not know that he was half-Jewish until he left them early this year. I don't know whether or not his stepfather knew. What an insane world we live in.
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