Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding,

and defending your Catholic faith.

I am Si Killett, your host.

Join this time, I Joe Heshmeyer, and we're going to talk about a somewhat difficult topic

for Christians to discuss, one in which we probably, well not probably, we have a very

mixed history, and therefore some things to regret, but not all things to regret, and

it's not a simple conversation, that's what makes it difficult too, that is anti-semitism

and the Catholic Church, anti-semitism and the Christian worldview, anti-semitism and

Christian people.

There's relationships here to all of these things, but the relationships are not always

what they seem, and they are difficult to parse, require some subtlety, and this is

not especially given the horrific treatment of Jews over the last hundred years.

It's not a subject in which careful parsing is always available to us.

So we'll give it a try today, we'll see how we do.

Joe Heshmeyer, thanks for being here with us.

My pleasure.

This topic comes up because more and more we see, well the internet just bearing more

fruits, the end of the fruits of the internet among them is a growing assertion that in order

to be Catholic, you really got to be against the Jews.

Yeah, there's variations of that, but there's kind of a theme of that, and it's not obviously

it's not coming from the top down, it's not like Pope Francis is saying, hey guys, be

more hateful against Jews.

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