Christians and Jews have come together to support the U.S. civil rights movement and the end of apartheid in South Africa. The repression of the Uyghurs in China also demands interreligious unity.

New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine joins the “Jesuitical” podcast to explain why Christians must understand Jesus within his Jewish context.

Catholics and Jews must be very careful not to reduce our relations with one another to politics or diplomacy. Instead, we should seek friendship and interreligious dialogue that can thrive beyond all political considerations.

The Second Vatican Council helped establish a bond of friendship between Catholics and Jews. What is the state of that unity after the Oct. 7 terrorist massacre?

“The pope’s presence at COP28 will be a historic event and without precedence in the history of COP,” Judge Mohamed Abdel Salam, a chief architect of the visit, said in this exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell.

After this letter, all of us must contend with the implications of the fact that he knew about the death camps—and he did nothing.