Religious Liberty Commission Members Urge Continued Work as Threats ‘Are Not Disappearing’
Religious-liberty commissioners met for their final scheduled meeting.
Religious-liberty commissioners met for their final scheduled meeting.
Dani Dayan spoke after meeting Pope Leo XIV, says antisemitism is 'bigotry' independent of Israeli policy.
'The Jewish community is attacked at a far higher rate than any other religious group in the United States,' Archbishop Alexander Sample said. 'We must clearly speak out against antisemitism.'
On the 150th anniversary of Pius XII’s birth, Emilio Artiglieri pays tribute to the late wartime pontiff and challenges a longstanding smear campaign that includes a new Netflix film.
Professor George said in a Facebook post that he would resign from the board because the think tank’s leader did not fully retract his initial video when he issued an apology.
While the Heritage Foundation president said he disagreed with and abhorred Fuentes’ antisemetic views and self-professed admiration of Hitler, he said ‘canceling him is not the answer.’
Quoting ‘Nostra Aetate,’ he said: “The Church, ‘mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel’s spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of antisemitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.’”
Pope Leo also said the missionary calling today means responding to suffering close at hand as well as far away.
Antisemitism is not merely a sin against a people but an affront to God’s chosen plan of redemption.
Weigel’s keynote address followed panel discussions on the Catholic approach to antisemitism throughout history and since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.
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