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The Current issue of NCR features an article entitled Race, Racism Engages Us At A Gut Level by Marqutte University Theology Professor Bryan N. Massingale. He has discovered that preconceptions about race that emerge from the shores of the unconscious must be acknowledged in the classroom or it impedes intellectual engagement with the study material. Being Black himself he has encountered being a walking Rorschach Inkblot for the Non-Rational Fears and Anxieties of even his closest colleagues.

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Efforts to mute criticism of a Good Friday prayer for the conversion of the Jews in the old Latin liturgy of the Catholic Church, which have escalated ever since Pope Benedict XVI announced the revival of the Latin Mass last July, intensified this week.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops announced two additions to the program of Pope Benedict while he’s in the United States in mid-April, both directed at Jews. After a general April 17 session with 200 leaders of other faiths in Washington, D.C., the pope will also meet briefly in private with the Jewish delegation. On April 18, Benedict will make a stop at New York’s Park East Synagogue, located near the Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations.

All Things Catholic by John L. Allen, Jr.
	Friday, April 4, 2008 - Vol. 7, No. 30

Editor's Note: Just as today's column was being posted, John Allen filed the following report on his daily news journal: Vatican fence-mending campaign with Jews picks up steam.

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I was in Washington, D.C., this week for a Tuesday luncheon sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. George Weigel and I had been invited by Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum, to brief reporters on Pope Benedict XVI's April 15-20 visit to the United States. As Weigel put it, he was there to offer an "op/ed" perspective, with emphasis on the pope and Islam, while I tried to fill the "news hole" with a broad overview.