I didn’t know the Catholic Church doesn’t allow lending.
They do now. It was banned in the 12th century and started getting unbanned in the 16th. Which is the window when Europe was basically Catholics and Jews and not much of anybody else. Also when the economy was starting to rev up and become international and then global. When banks started to really matter. And of course everybody that’s ever been denied a loan, or been repossessed hates bankers, which were all Jews for 400 years.
Also there was the whole blaming Jews for kill Jesus thing. Really the Catholic just basically decided everybody should hate the Jews and set the table for that.