VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In a letter addressed to "my Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel," Pope Francis expressed his heartbreak at the violence unleashed by the Hamas attack on Israel in October and he repeated the Catholic Church's condemnation of all
Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz, chairman of the Committee for Dialogue with Judaism of the Polish bishops' conference, strongly condemned the incident in which a far-right Polish lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the Sejm, the country's
The Oct. 7 killing of about 1,200 people in Israel by armed Hamas militants represented the biggest killing of Jews since the Holocaust. It also started the war that has killed nearly 16,000 Palestinians, according to Hamas-run health ministry, followed by massive
An estimated tens of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall Nov. 14 in a show of solidarity for Israel in the wake of the terrorist group Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on that country and a protest of antisemitism around the
Father Patrick Briscoe reflects on the powerful radio address given by the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain in 1938, where he condemned antisemitism. At that time, the world was witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, making
Just how deeply can words pierce? A troubling gauge surfaced at Cornell University during the final days of October.
That's when several online posts threatening extreme violence against Jews on campus were discovered. The threats -- which law enforcement traced to a Cornell
An internationally best-selling novelist who might have won the Nobel Prize in literature, a patriotic Pole and a devout Catholic, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was also an ardent anti-semite. And she is a model for us, writes David Mills, not despite her bigotry but
Students at a Catholic university in New Orleans have won a national prize for working to end antisemitism -- and their project has opened new windows for dialogue between Black and Jewish communities.
Four members of the honors program at Xavier University of
Several U.S. bishops are extending greetings to the Jewish community as its members celebrate Passover (Pesach), which commemorates the divine liberation of the ancient Israelites from enslavement in Egypt as recounted in the book of Exodus.
"Passover is a time of thoughtful reflection
It’s been almost 20 years since Mel Gibson’s groundbreaking film “The Passion of the Christ” was released. It was immensely popular when it hit the theaters but also set off storms of controversy, and it continues to divide audiences today. Two problems,