10. Jacques Maritain and the Passion of Israel

Beyond Rome

This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Dr. Richard Crane for episode 10 of Beyond Rome. In this episode, Dr. Crane shares with us the story of French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and his journey from ultra-nationalism and antisemitism to becoming one of the lone Catholic voices to speak out publicly against the virulent antisemitism of the Nazis and others during WWII.
Dr. Crane is a professor and chair of the Department of History at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. He teaches courses in modern European history and has published on topics dealing with the Catholic Church in World War II France, the Holocaust, and Catholic-Jewish relations since 1945. In 2006-07, Dr. Crane was the Hoffberger Family Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. While there, he wrote his book Passion of Israel: Jacques Maritain, Catholic Conscience, and the Holocaust, first published in 2010, and republished by Wipf and Stock in 2014. More recently, he has published articles in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations and The Catholic Historical Review.
Be sure to tune into this episode to hear from Dr. Crane about Jacques Maritain and his importance for combatting antisemitism and promoting friendship between Catholics and Jews today.
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00:00-06:06 - Dr Crane’s background & interest in Catholic-Jewish history
06:06-12:08 - Importance of the role of Jacques Maritain & Nostra Aetate
12:08-16:13 - Jacques & Raissa’s suicide pact and main influences
16:13-21:40 - Jews in revolutionary movements & metaphysics
21:40-25:00 - Charles Maurras & Maritan
25:00-28:15 - Jacques’ cost to obedience to Holy Father
28:15-30:05 - Marraus’s influence & Catholic clergy
30:05-35:51 - Holocaust and impossibility of being both antisemitic and Christian
35:51-39:05 - Summary of Maritan & antisemitism
39:05-43:23 - The Jewish question
43:23-46:16 - The covenantal relationship between Jews and God
46:16-48:02 - 10/7 mention & conclusion
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Resources:
➡️ Passion of Israel by Richard Crane: https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Israel-Maritain-Conscience-Holocaust/dp/1625648081
➡️ Richard Crane on America Magazine: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/08/22/jacques-maritain-nostra-aetate-holocaust-248539
➡️ Richard Crane on Homiletic and Pastoral Review: https://www.hprweb.com/2015/06/witnessing-to-truth/
➡️ "Heart-Rending Ambivalence” by Richard Crane: https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr/article/view/1820/1698
➡️ Nostra Aetate (Declaration on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions): https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html

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