PARIS (CNS) — The French bishops’ conference has condemned rising anti-Semitism in the country, as official data showed a massive increase of attacks, prompting new government measures. The conference president, Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseille, wrote France’s chief rabbi, Haim Korsia, Feb.
In every tragedy, there are the spiritual heroes, the ones who embody a Christlike posture even if they may have every reason to be consumed with fury and hatred. In the wake of the 2015 slaying of nine worshippers at Emanuel
I grew up Jewish. Not really, but it seemed that way. At least to a kid back in the 1950s and early ’60s, Catholic and Jewish life in the old North Yonkers, New York, were part of each other. The first girl