What happens when a saint or hero is found to have acted contrary to the gospel? Gloria Purvis speaks with Dawn Goldstein about the antisemitism of Catholic luminary G. K. Chesterton.
Judaism
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Pope Francis challenged by Israel’s chief Rabbis over his comments on the Torah
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has written a letter to Pope Francis conveying its “distress” at comments he made suggesting Jewish law, as written in the Torah, is obsolete.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis kisses numbered tattoo of Auschwitz survivor
“The gesture by the Holy Father strengthened me and reconciled me with the world,” said Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, a Polish woman of Belorussian descent who survived the concentration camp as a child.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
What a Jewish editor brings to a Catholic podcast
This week, Zac and Ashley take you behind the scenes of Jesuitical in an exit interview with our amazing outgoing editor, Noah Levinson.
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A look at Joe Biden’s religiously and ethnically diverse cabinet nominees
If all the nominees the president-elect has chosen are confirmed, the Cabinet will have diverse religious backgrounds. The majority are Catholic, with five Jews, two Black Baptists and two Hindus.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Don’t hide from the sins of St. Louis
If our first instinct is to defend “the church,” have we really learned the lessons of the sexual abuse crisis?
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Podcast: What happens when your faith and health come into conflict?
A conversation with The Atlantic’s Emma Green.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The right (and wrong) ways for Catholics to host a Passover Seder
As Christians have become more familiar and neighborly with people of other religious traditions, we have extended that familiarity to appreciation, and sometimes appreciation becomes appropriation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: How should Christians address anti-Semitism in their communities?
This book is meant to arouse Christians, both their pastors and congregations, to the agonies and injustices perpetrated against Jews in the past and presen
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Review: Abraham Heschel’s life of anguish and hope
Edward K. Kaplan’s book on Abraham Heschel will help readers feel a portion of the anguish Heschel endured in his lifetime. But even in his anguish, Heschel found not just spiritual consolation, but profound hope from his deep faith.