RT Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC)Christian Zionism is not Catholic theology. It is an evangelical import.It entered through American media in the 1990s and smuggled dispensationalism into Catholic minds. It assigns exclusive, ongoing covenantal status to the modern State of Israel.That is not the teaching of the Church.If your Catholic parents or grandparents were watching the 700 Club and similar programs, they were being catechized outside the Church. Not maliciously, but effectively. Evangelica ...

RT Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC)The claim that the modern secular State of Israel is the continuation of Biblical Israel is indefensible. Biblical Israel is a theological reality rooted in covenant, not a twentieth-century nation-state created by international decree.The Holy See does not equate the two and has consistently rejected that conflation. It did not recognize the State of Israel until the signing of the Fundamental Agreement on 30 December 1993.Accordingly, the argument that the curren ...