Perfect vacuity

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     "As a Jew with the greatest respect for the Catholic Church, I had always to this point assumed that in the Vatican only extraordinarily discriminating [(ausschließlich höchstkundige)]—[if] probably only [(nur) mere]—men work.  But the Pope’s answer[, almost three months in coming,] is perfectly vacuous [(nichtssagend)] because completely balanced.  Terror is not called terror, and no attempt is made to discriminate between perpetrators and victims.  Peace is called for, but with no attempt to indicate, even [if] only in a preliminary way, how, apart from flowery language, it is to be attained.  Of a moral compass there is, apart from commonplaces and the (naturally) congenial reference to God, no trace.  [What is more,] that reference to God is nothing more than a vacuous [(inhaltsleere)] vocable.  If one wanted to interpret Francis maliciously, one could say that the Hamas terrorists, too, shout 'Allahu akbar!,' 'God is great!' before, during, and after every murder."

     Michael Wolffsohn, "Papst Franziskus, die Juden and die Hamas:  Zur Debatte um das Papstscheiben an jüdische Gelehrte," Website of the Internationale Zeitschrift Communio, 22 Februar 2024, translation mine.  The reference, of course, is to this document.