Join us for a current look at the Catholic faith and Anti-Semitism. Our speakers bring broad experience and deep passion for inter-religious understanding.

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Sister Celia Deutsch, NDS is Research Scholar in the Religion Department of Barnard College/Columbia University, where she taught for twenty-seven years. Sr. Celia’s main interest lies in early Jewish and Christian social and religious intellectual history. She is the author of numerous books and works of biblical scholarship, such as Lady Wisdom, Jesus, and the Sages: Metaphor and Social Context in Matthew’s Gospel, and has worked and lectured in the USA, Canada, Italy, Israel and Zimbabwe. She is currently working on a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, part of the Wisdom Commentary Series (Liturgical Press). Celia is deeply engaged in interreligious dialogue at local, national and international levels.

Fr. Michael Lynch is a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn. He serves as the Vicar for Ecumenical & Interreligious Affairs for the diocese. He earned his degree (S.T.L.) in Ecumenical Theology in Rome; he has developed a specialty in Roman Catholic-Muslim dialogue. Working in the field since 1989, he was formed in his understanding of the importance of dialogue with those of other faith traditions when volunteering in Rome at the Library of the Sisters of Zion (SIDIC), giving walking tours of the Roman Jewish Ghetto to English speaking pilgrims. He has been on the faculty at St. John's University, and Saint Joseph's College (Brooklyn), in the field of Interreligious studies. Michael is on the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY) and the Catholic Association of Directors of Ecumenical and Interreligious Offices (CADEIO). He is a long-time friend of the Oratory community and currently Pastor of the parish of Our Lady of the Cenacle in Richmond Hill, Queens.