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Preaching to the unconverted

August 12, 2022

Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance Emily Michelson Princeton University Press, £30, 352 pages In 1555 Pope Paul IV decreed that Rome’s Jews, “who through their own fault were condemned to eternal servitude”, should now live within the walls of a ghetto whose doors would be locked at night. These strictures

The Pope’s example in tackling anti-Semitism is a model for all leaders

March 28, 2017

Work to reach out to communities and confront anti-Semitic mindsets should not be underestimated

Cardinal Keeler, retired Archbishop of Baltimore, dies aged 86

March 23, 2017

The cardinal was known as 'Baltimore' by St John Paul II, according to his priest-secretary

Vatican and Rome’s Jewish Museum team up for first joint show

February 21, 2017

The focus of the exhibition, opening in May, will be the menorah

Are we about to see the extinction of Christianity in Egypt?

December 13, 2016

Egypt is a dangerous country for Christians, and it is not going to change in the foreseeable future

What’s inside this week’s magazine?

September 29, 2016

Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald

The tragedy of Anita Brookner’s novels

March 17, 2016

There was certainly an inner melancholy to Anita Brookner’s fiction

Pope to visit Rome’s Jewish community

November 17, 2015

Pope Francis will be the third pope to visit Rome's synagogue

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