The Church and the Jews: Recovering Tradition, w/ Gideon Lazar

By Thomas V. Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Sep 04, 2025 | In The Catholic Culture Podcast

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A number of doctrinal ruptures occurred in Catholic life after Vatican II—not in the sense that the Church’s magisterium contradicted its previous teachings, but that the vast majority of Catholics, even conservative ones, tend to get these topics wrong. One of the worst examples is how the Church’s traditional teaching on the Jewish people has been forgotten, with many people under the false impression that Vatican II changed Catholic teaching.

Gideon Lazar, theologian and Jewish convert to Catholicism, joins the podcast to discuss some widely misunderstood and controversial points about the relationship between the Church and the Jews.

(The views Gideon expresses in this interview are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the St. Basil Institute, where he is institute coordinator.)

Links

Part 1 of Thomas’s four-part essay, “The Church and the Jews: Beyond the Platitudes” https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/church-and-jews-1-beyond-platitudes/

Gideon Lazar on Substack (a good article to start with) https://gideonlazar.substack.com/p/rex-iudaeorum-st-john-the-evangelist

Gideon on X https://x.com/ByzCat

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