The twentieth century tried to "deny Hebraism and bury it in a grave to eradicate a faith, a culture, a population". These are the words of Andrea Riccardi, religion historian and one of the founders of the Comunità di S.Egidio, at the meeting of the dioceses of Latium (Italy), named "Hebraism in Italy: identity, confrontation, dialogue", promoted today in Fiuggi by the Religion Office for Ecumenism and Dialogue. "Twentieth-century men stated they did not need Hebraism to build their future went on Riccardi -. Yet, the Jew is the all-time companion". The historian then went through the lines of a "Western positivism" that "rejected" Hebraism as something "dark", "archaic". A "temptation" for a stretch of road that has also been shared by some Christians, such as the Catholics of Action Française, which was typical of European nationalisms, "the enemies of the Jewish character of Jesus". "Mutilated of its relationship with Hebraism", instead, concluded Riccardi, "Christianity becomes something else: a Catholicity without Christianity".
