Every Christian needs a better understanding of the Jewish origins of his or her faith.

The kidnapping became an international scandal and contributed to the anti-clerical sentiment sweeping across Europe.

A popular proposed law could land Jewish and Muslim parents in prison for up to six years for circumcising their infant boys. 

There are deeper, underlying commonalities that join the two holidays.

In liturgically celebrating the truth and power of the passion narratives, however, we must be equally energetic in proclaiming, as did Pope John Paul II on the Auschwitz anniversary: “Never again anti-Semitism!”

Poland’s Catholic primate called anti-Semitism “a moral evil and a sin.”