Vatican Blessings

Someone asked me if the Vatican ever pronounced other Christian sects as acceptable forms of Christian worship, to which I responded if the Vatican validated Judaism surely Protestants cannot be far off.

(Note Cardinal Ratzinger went on to become Pope Benedict.)

See 2002 NY Times article: "Vatican Says Jews' Wait for Messiah Is Validated by the Old Testament" & the corresponding 2002 Vatican source document:

"...Christians can and ought to admit that the Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one..."

"Insistence on discontinuity between both Testaments and going beyond former perspectives should not, however, lead to a one-sided spiritualisation. What has already been accomplished in Christ must yet be accomplished in us and in the world. The definitive fulfilment will be at the end with the resurrection of the dead, a new heaven and a new earth. Jewish messianic expectation is not in vain. It can become for us Christians a powerful stimulant to keep alive the eschatological dimension of our faith. Like them, we too live in expectation. The difference is that for us the One who is to come will have the traits of the Jesus who has already come and is already present and active among us."