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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 569

Jewish-Catholic relations

Christians gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for a mass honoring Pope Francis on April 23, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
At Jerusalem’s holiest church, Catholics mourn Pope Francis with solemn mass
By Rossella Tercatin and Reuters
Hundreds gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for prayers for the late pontiff led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, seen as a possible successor
Christians gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for a mass honoring Pope Francis on April 23, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
April 23, 2025, 8:45 pm
At Jerusalem’s holiest church, Catholics mourn Pope Francis with solemn mass
Hundreds gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for prayers for the late pontiff led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, seen as a possible successor
By Rossella Tercatin and Reuters
Pope Francis prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/THOMAS COEX)
April 22, 2025, 7:27 pm
Pope Francis cared deeply about Holy Land, Jews, but left ‘sour taste’ after Oct. 7
Scholars of Catholic-Jewish relations remember the pontiff’s warmth, humility; late Church leader made important strides in ties, but lacked a core understanding of Jews’ concerns
By Lazar Berman
Pope Francis flanked by Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, right, during his visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
January 18, 2025, 8:09 am
‘Selective indignation’: Rome’s chief rabbi criticizes Pope Francis over Israel remarks
Speaking at Catholic-Jewish dialogue event, Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni accuses the pope of unfairly focusing on Israel, while ignoring other world conflicts
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Pope Francis meets with a delegation from the American Jewish Committee at the Vatican on International Women's Day, March 8, 2019. (Vatican Media)
December 22, 2024, 9:02 pm
As relations ebb, rabbi and bishop launch guide to educate Catholics on antisemitism
Despite comments on the war by Pope Francis that rub many Jews the wrong way, Rabbi Noam Marans and Bishop Joseph Bambera have faith that dialogue can help overcome the hitch
By Ben Sales
Pope Francis in central Rome on the day of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 2024. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP)
December 10, 2024, 2:19 am
With genocide comments, Nativity visit, pope sows doubts about commitment to Jews
Francis, who sees himself as a friend of the community, has had an increasingly patchy record on statements relating to Jews and Israel, and may be causing irreversible damage to ties
By Lazar Berman
Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, December 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
December 6, 2024, 2:52 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 6: Day 427 – As Pope floats ‘genocide,’ a dive into Catholic-Jewish ties
After Pope Francis made headlines calling for an investigation into IDF operations in Gaza, diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman gives historical background to a fraught relationship
By ToI Staff
Rev. John Bettin, head pastor at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic parish, prepares to mount a revised version of the church's history of its antisemitic founder Father Charles Coughlin, Royal Oak, Michigan, Novemver 7, 2023. The new version includes a QR code for visitors to learn more about Coughlin's antisemitism. (Courtesy of Levi Smith via JTA)
June 27, 2024, 2:10 am
Father Coughlin’s Detroit-area church will now teach visitors about his antisemitism
Local Jews praise Catholic parish seat for updating its history of the popular national radio host who distributed ‘Protocols’ and suggested Jews deserved Nazi persecution
By Andrew Lapin
Franciscan University in Ohio. (Courtesy)
November 6, 2023, 3:58 pm
US Catholic universities offer campuses as refuge for ‘harassed’ Jewish students
Yeshiva University quietly builds coalition of institutions willing to expedite transfer processes for Jewish students fleeing antisemitism at colleges since Oct. 7 Hamas massacres
By Matt Lebovic
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder gives Pope Francis a 'Kishreinu' (Hebrew for 'Our Bond') document marking influence of the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, October 19, 2023. (Shahar Azran/WJC via JTA)
October 24, 2023, 4:26 pm
In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican
World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder visits Pope Francis while inaugurating the organization’s ‘representative office to the Holy See’ late last week
By Gabe Friedman
File: In this May 28, 2006 photo, then-pope Benedict XVI walks through the gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File)
January 6, 2023, 9:53 am
Despite some missteps, Benedict XVI was a committed friend to the Jews
The German traditionalist pope, buried Thursday, is often remembered as icy and aloof, but those who knew him say Ratzinger was a warm man who moved Catholic-Jewish ties forward
By Lazar Berman
Rabbi A. James Rudin, a longtime interfaith activist, will be knighted for his work in Catholic-Jewish relations. (Screenshot via YouTube)
November 3, 2022, 5:43 pm
Reform rabbi to be knighted by pope for his work on Jewish-Catholic relations
A. James Rudin, longtime director of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee, will be the 9th Jew to receive the honor from the Papal Order of St. Gregory
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Asher Lopatin, left, of the JCRC/AJC talks to Msgr. Patrick Halfpenny at the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan, on May 31, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Kowalsky for JTA)
June 11, 2022, 11:15 pm
Antisemite Father Coughlin’s former church reaches out to Jews in show of good faith
Once a base of hatred, the National Shrine of the Little Flower in metro Detroit co-hosts interfaith event aimed at maintaining and continuing to improve Jewish-Catholic relations
By Andrew Lapin
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan, left, meets with Pope Francis in the Vatican on June 9, 2022. (Yad Vashem)
June 9, 2022, 12:41 pm
In first, Yad Vashem chief meets Pope Francis in Vatican
Dani Dayan and pontiff discuss ongoing cooperation on Holocaust education and preventing antisemitism
By Judah Ari Gross
In this April 1, 2021 file photo, Pope Francis celebrates a Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. During the Mass the Pontiff blesses a token amount of oil that will be used to administer the sacraments for the year. Pope Francis cracked down on the spread of the old Latin Mass on Friday, July 16, 2021, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI's signature decisions in a major challenge to traditionalist Catholics. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
July 19, 2021, 5:59 am
Pope Francis restricts Latin Mass that calls for the conversion of the Jews
Decision walks back earlier decree by Pope Benedict XVI
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Not a member of the Catholic Jesuit order, Cesare Vincenzo Orsenigo was a top Vatican diplomatic link with the Nazi regime. In this 1939 photo he speaks with Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, with Adolf Hitler in the background. (Bundesarchiv bild)
November 10, 2020, 3:02 pm
Jesuit Catholic priest pens book about his order’s complicity in the Holocaust
Historian James Bernauer’s book ‘Jesuit Kaddish’ surprises academic Catholic order with a novel study of its members’ anti-Semitism — and honors those who saved Jews during WWII
By Rich Tenorio
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