Presented by the Center for Catholic Studies and the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies

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; 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.