The Position of the Church on "Judaism"

Useful essay on the relationship of the Church to Judaism.  Here's an excerpt which is the core of it.

 ...You will search the magisterium, including the JPII speech he is commenting on, in vain to find any teaching that "Judaism" is the object of God's irrevocable covenant. Rather, the covenant is with the Jewish people. 

After the completion of the revelation of the New Covenant, the way for the Jews to be faithful to their covenant is to believe in Christ as members of the Catholic Church. The idea that the covenant is attached to the practice of a religious system that by Keating's own admission arose AFTER Christ is absurd on its face. By contrast, the Church has always taught that the continued practice of "Judaism" is not only spiritually unprofitable but an offense against God. 

Keating misquotes a speech by St. John Paul II, saying "he referred to Judaism as 'a living heritage which we, as Catholic Christians, must understand and cherish in all its depth and richness.'" Note that by "Judaism" Keating has already established that he means modern rabbinic Judaism. 

By contrast, here is JPII's full statement: "In their 'Declaration on the Church's Relationship with Judaism' of April this year, the Bishops of the Federal Republic of Germany began with this statement: 'Whoever encounters Jesus Christ, encounters Judaism.' I would also like to make this statement my own. The Church's faith in Jesus Christ, son of David and son of Abraham, in fact contains what the Bishops in that declaration call 'the spiritual heritage of Israel for the Church', a living heritage that we Catholic Christians must understand and preserve in its depth and richness." 

The living heritage of Israel for the Church is, then, not modern rabbinic Judaism, but the religion of the Old Testament which is contained spiritually in our faith in Christ. JPII wishes to instill respect toward the Jewish people because of their connection to that revelation. But in fact, it is the Catholic faith, not rabbinic tradition practiced by unbelieving Jews, which "understands and preserves" "the spiritual heritage of Israel for the Church"....

To re-state the truth of the matter:  the New Covenant is the FULFILLMENT of the Old.  That is why the Temple was destroyed and remains destroyed to this very day.