Kresta in the Afternoon – May 6, 2024 – Hour 1

Author: Bryant Schoenle Published on: May 6, 2024 Published in: Al Kresta

Guest Host Marcus Peter talks with Fr. Roger Landry, chaplain of Columbia University, about the protests there and Andre Villeneuve asks if the Church holds the Jewish people responsible for the death of Christ.

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What I Saw at the Columbia Riots

Fr. Roger Landry is a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University who has walked through the protest zones, conversing with student protesters and other “outside agitators.” He joins us to share his experiences.

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Columbia’s Catholic Chaplain: Campus Protests Were Pushed by ‘Explicitly Communist’ Outsiders

fr roger landry — Rev. Roger Landry is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. An alumnus of Harvard College and the Pontifical North American College in Rome, he is ecclesiastical adviser for Aid to the Church in Need USA, a papally appointed Missionary of Mercy, a Missionary of the Eucharist for the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ new three-year eucharistic revitalization, and chaplain to the New York chapter of the Leonine Forum. He is the author of Plan of Life: Habits to Help you Grow Closer to God. Find his writings at Catholicpreaching.com

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Does the Church hold the Jews accountable for the death of Christ?

Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill adoption the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of Antisemitism. Critics say the bill hampers free speech, with one claiming that it defines “the basic Biblical Truth that the Jews killed Jesus Christ as ‘classic antisemitism.’” But does the Church hold the Jews accountable for Christ’s death? We talk with Andre Villeneuve, who also weighs in on Holocaust Remembrance Day.