The 19th Annual Lecture in Jewish/Christian Engagement

“Catholics and Antisemitism: Reading Nostra Aetate in 2025”

With Dr. Massimo Faggioli - Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University.

Anti-Semitism is like a mutant virus that changes in different historical contexts, and in all of them Christianity bears a particular responsibility to address and respond to it. In this particular moment, Catholics have a particular role to respond to recent trends: globalization and the end of the exceptionalism of the Holocaust; the effects of the war in Israel and Palestine; and a relativism towards Vatican II which involves the theology of Jewish-Christian dialogue, despite its key role in the teaching of Vatican II and in post-Vatican II official Catholic teaching and theological tradition. 

Co-Sponsored with the Center for Catholic Studies

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 7:00 p.m.
Kelley Presentation Room