“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.
Judaism
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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
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
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.
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Auschwitz survivors warn of rising anti-Semitism 75 years later
Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp prayed and wept as they marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation, returning Monday to the place where they lost entire families and warning about the ominous growth of anti-Semitism and hatred in the world.
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Pope Francis: “I will never grow tired of condemning every form of anti-Semitism”
Pope Francis firmly condemned “every form of anti-Semitism” on the eve of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.