May 22, 2025

With great sadness and horror, we have learned of the killing in cold blood of two members of the Jewish community, Yaron and Sarah, employees of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC. We commend them to the mercy of God, and we join with their families, friends, and the wider Jewish community who mourns their senseless and tragic loss. May their memory be a blessing. As has been so evident in these last months and years, antisemitism is still pervasive in our country and our world, and the Catholic community in New York today renews our resolve to work to eradicate this evil. We stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters in this moment of pain, praying that all may live in the peace and security that God surely intends for us.