This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac welcome Rachel Goldberg, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the hostages taken into Gaza following Hamas’s massacre on Oct. 7.
Judaism
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The friendship between Catholics and Jews goes deeper than diplomacy
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.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
A rabbi’s call for Pope Francis and Catholics to respond to ‘existential threat’ facing Jewish people
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?
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Italian film ‘Rapito’ tells the shocking true story of a Jewish boy kidnapped by the Vatican
“Rapito” is a compelling and often infuriating tale of church power that will likely never be shown at the Vatican.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Rising antisemitism requires a clear Catholic response
How will the Catholic response to a rise in antisemitism around the world, following the deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust, be viewed in 50 years? Will it have been enough?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How Catholics can support our Jewish neighbors after the massacre in Israel
Let me help you, Jews and gentiles alike, bridge the gap that’s keeping us from really being there for each other.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
New research: Despite anti-Semitism, Catholics helped rescue thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Italy
Many Catholics overcame their antisemitic prejudices to rescue and save Jewish people in danger, “sometimes at the cost of their lives,” some Jewish and Catholic historians said at an international conference.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
From a Rabbi to my Catholic friends: We must confront what Pope Pius XII knew about the Holocaust.
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.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Pius XII knew details about Nazi death camps, according to unearthed letter from German Jesuit
Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland.
Posted inFaith, News
The Vatican beatifies a Polish family of 9 killed by the Nazis for sheltering Jews
The Ulma beatification poses several new theological concepts about the Catholic Church’s ideas of saints and martyrs that have implications for the anti-abortion movement because of the baby in the mother’s womb.