Catholic-Jewish relations Archives

Bavaria to leave medieval anti-Jewish sculptures on churches

Dec 9, 2020

Authorities, churches and Jewish communities in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria have agreed that anti-Semitic statues and carvings dating back to the Middle Ages shouldn’t be removed from churches, an official said Tuesday.

By Associated Press

‘Warmest human spirit’: UK’s former chief rabbi Sacks dies

Nov 8, 2020

Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi in the UK who reached beyond the Jewish community with his regular broadcasts on radio, has died at 72.

By Associated Press

Catholic, Jewish leaders mark 55th anniversary of ‘Nostra Aetate’

Oct 28, 2020

The formal structures that sponsor Catholic-Jewish dialogue are important, but their decades of success have relied on strong personal friendships and mutual respect, both of which must continue to spread among all Catholics and Jews, officials involved in the dialogue said.

By Catholic News Service

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