In preparation for the gathering in Abu Dhabi, I find myself asking why my conversations with the future Pope Francis so powerfully affected both of us.

"A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots. It would be a contradiction of faith and life."

For almost 20 years Polish scholars have been at the cutting edge of Holocaust research. But a law proposed this year threatened to change all that.

First, we need to address the very image of God we present in our worship.

We must reject violence. But this is the least that we should do.

The issue at the heart of this debacle is the slur “Christ-killer.”