(Jewish Group) Survey: Catholic biblical literalists more likely to have anti-Jewish views
Nearly six decades after the Second Vatican Council called for a renewal of Catholic-Jewish relations, American Catholics exhibit a marked lack of knowledge of their church’s teachings about Judaism, according to wide-ranging new survey of U.S. Catholic views on Jews, Judaism and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
“The survey shows that there’s a need to more intensely raise the consciousness of American Catholics about Catholic views on the Bible and understandings of Jewish covenantal life,” said Philip Cunningham, director of St. Joseph’s Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations, which conducted the survey in July 2022 with SurveyUSA.
Most surprising among the survey’s findings is that fewer than half of U.S. Catholics affirm the idea that God’s covenant with the Jewish people remains intact, with just 41.7% of U.S. Catholics responding yes. More than 42% said they didn’t know, and 15.8% said the covenant either ended or never existed.
Echoing the documents and pronouncements of several of his predecessors, Pope Francis wrote in 2013 that Catholics “hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has never been revoked.”
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