Anti-Semitism &amp; the Catholic Church

Article

Last Days at Dachau

Thomas Molnar reflects on survivors' stories of the final days at the Dachau concentration camp and its hell-like conditions.

By Thomas Molnar

November 16, 1956

Article

Return to Auschwitz

Adolph Schalk reflects on his tour of Auschwitz and the atrocities committed there.

By Adolph Schalk

July 9, 1965

Death and Dying

Friend of God

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel offered prophetic insights into the nature of God, the meaning of justice, and the necessity of Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Spirituality

Article

An Interview with Elie Wiesel

By Henry James Cargas

October 24, 1986

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Margarete Sommer did not expect Germans-at-large to take responsibility for the Holocaust, but she did expect them to take responsibility for its survivors.

Saving Jews Was Her Passion

By Michael Phayer

August 18, 1995

Death and Dying

Article

Nazi Racism & the Church

When it comes to bettering Catholic-Jewish relations, converts from Judaism and Protestantism have been largely responsible for challenging racism and anti-Semitism.

By John Connelly

February 13, 2012

Article

On Anti-Semitism

Two books consider discussion of the problem of anti-Semitism for both the Christian and the Jew.

By Jacques Maritain

May 28, 2014

War and Peace

Article

You can’t make much sense of Catholicism if you do not understand and revere Judaism.

The Story Behind 'Nostra Aetate'

By Paul Baumann

March 30, 2015

U.S. Catholicism

Theology

Vatican II

Article

From Trotsky to Soros

What does violence in Charlottesville and Pittsburgh have to do with WWI-era Moscow? A new book details the destructive power of anti-Semitic myths

By James J. Sheehan

February 27, 2019

Foreign Affairs

War and Peace

Article

What Screens Can’t Show

Absent-minded observation falls short when we are confronted with Gerhard Richter’s Birkenau paintings.

By Robert Rubsam

December 11, 2020

Arts

Media

War and Peace

Article

Still Supersessionist?

Timothy P. Jackson considers the Shoah not just as a moral or political event, but as a theological one.

By Brad East

November 17, 2021

Books

Article

When Fr. Coughlin defended Kristallnacht, he turned to the work of Irish theologian Denis Fahey. Now, conservative Catholics are returning to Fahey for inspiration.

Old Anti-Semitism, New Audience

By Paul Moses

November 9, 2022

Politics

Article

On Tradition and the Passion Play

How a Bavarian village’s once-a-decade Passion play became a wrenching, intimate, sometimes chaotic psychological theo-drama

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

March 15, 2023

Arts

Lent