No Islamic Mea Culpas
Steve Lipman Staff Writer At first-ever conference on the topic, experts explore the history and potential threat of Muslim anti-Semitism.In the shadow of the controversial planned Islamic center near...
View ArticleVatican Paper Slams Berlusconi Over ‘Jewish Joke’
Rome (JTA) — The official Vatican newspaper slammed Italy’s prime minister for a joke that played on Jewish stereotypes and made fun of the Holocaust. Silvio Berlusconi told “offensive” and...
View ArticlePope Wins Praise for Repudiating Jewish Guilt for Jesus’ Death
(JTA) -- Jewish organizations are hailing Pope Benedict XVI's unequivocal repudiation of the claim that the Jewish people can be held forever responsible for the death of Jesus.The Vatican already...
View ArticleNew Dialogue Leader Off To Bad Start
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Vatican official charged with fostering Jewish-Catholic relations reignites tensions over Pope Pius XII canonization.The Vatican’s new leader of dialogue with the Jewish...
View ArticleNew Pope Seen As Sensitive To Jewish Concerns
Stewart Ain Staff Writer The selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to be the new pope of the Roman Catholic Church is being seen as a move that will continue to cement...
View ArticlePope Francis: ‘Inside every Christian is a Jew’
RNS Vatican City – Underscoring the close ties between Christianity and Judaism and calling Holocaust denial “madness,” Pope Francis told an interviewer that “inside every Christian is a Jew.”read more
View ArticleCatholics And Jews Pan Film Defending Wartime Pope Pius XII
RNS A new Italian film that attempts to defend wartime Pope Pius XII against accusations he turned a blind eye to the Holocaust has been panned by the Vatican as well as Catholic and Jewish media.read...
View ArticleMideast Peace: Search and Rescue
The coalition guidelines Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented to Knesset on Wednesday revealed more by what they did not say that what they told about where he wants to lead his newly minted...
View ArticleOrdain Women? Vatican Synod Gets An Unexpected Proposal
David Gibson RNS The most controversial proposal floated so far at the high-level, high-stakes Vatican summit on church teachings on the family had nothing to do with gays or divorce, but instead...
View ArticleCatholics Shouldn’t Try To Convert Jews, Says New Vatican Document
Rosie Scammell RNS Vatican City - The Vatican has said that Catholics should witness to their faith but not undertake organized efforts to convert Jews, a significant step forward in the once tense...
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