Over two millennia, Catholics regarded Jews as the Church’s enemies, accursed by God and rightly afflicted for rejecting Christ.

But in the middle of the twentieth century, a small group of Catholic converts with Jewish and Protestant roots orchestrated a theological renovation that profoundly changed interreligious relations and reshaped official Church teaching about Jews.

Focusing on John Connelly’s acclaimed new book, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, this forum explores how, amid Nazi persecution and in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Catholics confronted the most problematic aspect of their history and began to speak a new language of cooperation and friendship with Jews.