Even before The Jesus Project's innaugural meeting in California on February 18, 2007, Catholic Online weighed in with disfavor.Canadian Catholic News"Debunking" is not the stated intention. The Chairman of the project, R. Joseph Hoffman, states, "The goal of the project is not to 'prove' the non-existence of Jesus, but to take the theory as a 'testable hypothesis' and use the best methods of critical inquiry to reach a probable conclusion." Oops.
by Deborah Gyapong
January 24, 2007
Msgr. Crotty notes a more liberal paradigm has operated over the past 30-40 years that seemed to suggest the church’s teachings had to change to “go where the people are going."
“That paradigm has actually failed,” he said. “You can’t change the teaching of the church because it belongs to Christ. Christ’s message doesn’t change. We have to change. Sometimes it’s easier to ‘change Jesus’ than to change ourselves.”
Those who set out in the 1960s to go out and change the world and wanted to change the church didn’t succeed,” he said. “The process of trying to ‘changing Jesus’ has been going on for a long time,” he said referring to society as a whole with its Jesus Seminar and now the new Jesus Project, aimed at debunking Jesus’ historical existence."
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