Recovering Tradition, w/ Gideon Lazar

Sep 4, 2025

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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