Persecution has brought America’s Catholics and Jews together
On October 27, a white nationalist named Robert Bowers stormed the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, touting an AR-15 and hurling anti-Semitic slurs. He left with bullet wounds from a shootout with police, having claimed 11 lives in what is thought to be the deadliest incident of anti-Semitic violence in US history.
Bowers wasn’t Catholic, and his motivation wasn’t theological. All the same, we must ask: could America’s Catholics have done more to prevent this kind of anti-Semitic sentiment from bubbling over into violence? What is the state of Catholic-Jewish relations in America today?
