Editing Antisemitism in Christianity (section)

==={{lang|la|Sicut Judaeis}}===
{{lang|la|[[Sicut Judaeis]]}} (the "Constitution for the Jews") was the official position of the papacy regarding Jews throughout the Middle Ages and later.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Paula |last=Fredriksen |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/600873 |title=Review: Revisiting Augustine's Doctrine of Jewish Witness |journal=The Journal of Religion |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=564–578 |date=October 2009 |jstor= 10.1086/600873|doi= 10.1086/600873|s2cid=170403439 }}</ref> The first [[papal bull]] was issued in about 1120 by [[Calixtus II]], intended to protect Jews who suffered during the [[First Crusade]], and was reaffirmed by many popes, even until the 15th century although they were not always strictly upheld.

The bull forbade, besides other things, Christians from coercing Jews to convert, or to harm them, or to take their property, or to disturb the celebration of their festivals, or to interfere with their cemeteries, on pain of excommunication:<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=History of Toleration}}</ref>

{{blockquote|We decree that no Christian shall use violence to force them to be baptized, so long as they are unwilling and refuse.{{nbsp}}[...] Without the judgment of the political authority of the land, no Christian shall presume to wound them or kill them or rob them of their money or change the good customs that they have thus far enjoyed in the place where they live.<ref name="BaskinSeeskin2010">{{cite book|last1=Baskin|first1=Judith R.|last2=Seeskin|first2=Kenneth|title=The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture|date=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521869607|page=120}}</ref>}}