Pope Leo: “May horror of genocide never again be inflicted upon any people.”
At the conclusion of the General Audience, Pope Leo recalls International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed on 27 January [2026], and invokes “the gift of a world without antisemitism,” free from prejudice, oppression, and persecution, and founded on “mutual respect and the common good.” Pope Leo issued an impassioned appeal against hatred during his weekly General […]
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The lie that would not die. By Brigitte Sion circa 1935: The title pages of ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, a Nazi anti-Semitic text. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an anti-Semitic pamphlet published in Russia at the end of the 19th century. It purports to be the minutes […]
Antisemitism and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew”
Henry Ford (1863-1947 was the founder of Ford Motor Company. He was one of the most respected and innovative business leaders in American history. Ford used his position and wealth to promote hatred of Jews. He owned an influential newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, that spread antisemitic ideas to American readers. Antisemitism is prejudice against or […]
Anti-Semitism and the Catholic Relationship with the Jewish Community
Antisemitism is the prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people. It is a form of bigotry and racism. For centuries, antisemites have demonized and dehumanized Jews by spreading antisemitic tropes, stereotypes, and conspiracy theories. Antisemitism is a set of hateful beliefs and ideas about Jews and the Jewish religion, Judaism. It is based on old […]
Pope at Audience: “the Church does not tolerate anti-Semitism”
During his catechesis as part of the Wednesday General Audience, Pope Leo XIV highlights the importance of Jewish-Catholic relations and of not allowing politics to affect them and underlines how religions can work together to build a better world. By Isabella H. de Carvalho Since the publication sixty years ago of the Second Vatican Council’s […]
A timely anniversary
Antisemitism is a betrayal of Christianity, for Jew-hatred is Christ-hatred. October 29, 2025, George Weigel, The Dispatch Sixty years ago, on October 28, 1965, the Second Vatican Council adopted, and Pope Paul VI promulgated, the Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, known by the first words in the official Latin text as Nostra Aetate (In […]
Anti-Semitism, Anti-Catholicism and Truth
DONALD DEMARCO I approached this essay by reading Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair (2002) in conjunction with its polar opposite, Eugenio Zolli’s Why I Became a Catholic (1953). Zolli was the chief rabbi in Rome during the entire Nazi presence in World War […]
Where the Word ‘Antisemitism’ Comes From
Richard Levy Hatred of Jews has been a feature of world history for centuries. But only in the late 19th century did a new specific word emerge to describe it. What prompted the coining of the neologism “antisemitism” was the perception of an altered relationship between Jews and the peoples among whom they lived that […]
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855
“I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We […]
500 YEARS OF PROTESTANTISM: THE 38 MOST RIDICULOUS THINGS MARTIN LUTHER EVER WROTE
As we move beyond five-hundred-year anniversary of the Protestant reformulation on October 31, 2017, it is good for us to look back and examine how that all worked out for them. For, how are we to judge the fruit of tree over the last 500 years unless we first examine the roots of that tree? […]