“In the light of the numerous communications that have been sent to me by various friends and Jewish organizations from all over the world…I feel the desire to assure you of my closeness and affection,” Pope Francis writes.
Judaism
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
The danger of ignoring Jesus’ Jewish identity
New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine joins the “Jesuitical” podcast to explain why Christians must understand Jesus within his Jewish context.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
In ‘The Zone of Interest,’ a Nazi family is blind to the evil next door
“The Zone of Interest” is a surrealistic depiction of a Nazi family at peace with their sins.
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
Mother of a Gaza hostage on keeping faith after Oct. 7: ‘It doesn’t make sense. And I still believe.’
“As religious people, we struggle, we see hard things happen, horrible things happen in this world. And our job is to figure out: How do you reconcile and keep going on within that?”
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Mother of a 23-year-old hostage held in Gaza says Pope Francis ‘restored her faith in humanity’
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.
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.