Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I am Cy Kelly, your host. Join this time by 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. 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 100 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 endless 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 like Pope Francis is saying, hey guys, be

more hateful against the Jews.