Catholic-Jewish relations

Respect, understanding can defeat racism, bigotry, Archbishop Gregory says
- Jul 2, 2020
While America grapples with racism and bigotry and other social ills, Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said people must reach out to one another, learn about others different from themselves and rediscover that all religions teach that hatred is wrong.

By Richard Szczepanowski
60 years ago, a Pope met a Jewish icon and the world changed
- Jun 14, 2020
It was June 13, 1960, when a distinguished French Jewish historian, intellectual and educator named Jules Isaac met St. John XXIII in a Vatican audience.

By John L. Allen Jr.
New York’s religious leaders finding God at virus’s American epicenter
- Apr 10, 2020
With Passover and Easter just around the corner, leaders from New York City’s Catholic and Jewish communities expressed their mutual conviction that God is present in their people’s suffering and warned about complacency in Catholic-Jewish relations.

By Nick Mayrand

Cupich: ‘Never forget’ policies that led to Holocaust began with words
- Jul 29, 2019
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and the policies that led to the Holocaust all began with words, including words that targeted “the other,” Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago wrote in a July 24 commentary in the ‘Chicago Catholic’, the archdiocesan newspaper.

By Catholic News Service
In Italy, even getting a pug offers a graduate lesson in Catholicism
- Jul 27, 2019
If you’re at all interested in Catholicism, just moving around Italy is like a graduate education in Church history.

By John L. Allen Jr.
Diplomatic notes: Concert marks anniversary of Israel-Vatican ties
- Jun 14, 2019
Plaintive pleas and rousing, rhythmic recognitions of God’s goodness filled the air at Rome’s main synagogue as Israeli and Vatican officials celebrated 25 years of formal diplomatic relations.

By Cindy Wooden