Do Catholics hate Jews?

Answer 1

I haven't really met any catholics that hate any one group of people as a whole.

Answer 2

The short answer is no.

Someone once said, "a true Catholic will regard the Jewish people and their traditions with filial reverence and affection."

The long answer is more complicated. My sense from reading European history is that at various times, there has been horrific tension between Jews and Catholics as well as between Jews and other Christians. Much of this seems to have been based on the mutual antagonism that was present at Christianity's inception (as described in the Biblical Book of "Acts".) Much, I surmise, has been attributable to an envy of the wealth, education, and prominence of certain successful Jewish families throughout history. Some has been attributable to sheer ignorance and fear based on stereotypes. And some of this tension has been political in nature: throughout medieval history, when much of Christendom was at war with the Muslim Turks and the Moors, Jews sympathetic to the latter sometimes took actions that were perceived - often not without justification - as damaging to the strategic success of the Christian forces, provoking profound resentment among their Christian fellow countrymen. Following the Enlightenment, the affinity for progressive and collective political approaches among some Jewish political figures has sometimes aroused an unjust suspicion that the Jewish people as a whole are in sympathy with Bolshevism or world-wide Communism. (This is, of course, not true; many religious Jews suffered greatly under the regime of the former U.S.S.R., and many Communist states have supported the enemies of the state of Israel.) However, Communism and the Catholic Church being sworn enemies, many Catholics who do not have a fair understanding of the nature of the relationship between Jews and Communism, have unfairly placed the Jewish people in the "enemy" camp.

Catholics of good will, who take the time and trouble to learn and put into practice what their religion teaches, reject hate toward anyone.

Answer 3

No.

The Catholic Church officially teaches:

When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People, "the first to hear the Word of God.

The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant.

To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ"; "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable."

Neither all Jews indiscriminately at that time, nor Jews today, can be charged with the crimes committed during the Passion of Jesus Christ. The Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from Holy Scripture.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 597 and 839:
http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt2art4p2.htm#597
http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm#839

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

You might find individual Catholics here and there who may dislike Jews for whatever ill-conceived notion. As for the rest of us Catholics, we recognize our origin within Judaism and the Old Covenant and, thus, respect the Jews as "siblings" in God.

Answer 5

Fortunately most Catholics I have met like Jews. To be fair there are people that are racist in all religions.

Answer 6

Since John Paul II (I think it was him) said that the Catholic Church shouldn't keep trying to convert Jews, Jewish-Catholic relations have gotten on quite well :-)

Answer 7

I have never met one that does. We are called to love everyone. If a Catholic hated Jews he/she would be disobedient to Jesus and His church.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 8

NO! I love jews <3 all my best friends are jews

Answer 9

only those people who are not Catholic.

Answer 10

Mel Gibson does.