By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - Anti-Semitism, we need to remind ourselves, is a Christian heresy that has been around since the beginning and, like a bad penny, keeps showing up to inflict its poison upon the world... How simple the connection appears when seeing who the first saints in the canon actually are, beginning with Mary and Joseph, Peter, Paul, and all the apostles who followed. They were all Jews, most emphatically so. It should not be the stuff of controversy, therefore, to learn that, as Pope Pius XI announced back in the 1930s, against the rising tide of racist ideology and the looming threat of the genocide to come: “Spiritually, we are all Semites.”