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An overflow crowd in the Lombardo Conference Room Monday night (Nov. 5) heard author James Carroll discuss "Antisemitism and Religious History." His appearance was sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves, a national educational organization; the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies; and a number of JCU organizations. Acknowledging criticism that he is a "Catholic basher," the author of
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews said, "There is nothing that I accuse my Church of that I do not equally accuse myself of." He charged Christian, Jew and Muslim alike to analyze what in their religion leads them toward prejudice and violence. "The religious impulse to die for the faith slides all too easily into the impulse to kill for it," he said. |