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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 565

John Paul II

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)
March 4, 2025, 5:52 am
For Rome’s Jews, ties with ailing pope are personal. And increasingly complicated
With 2,000 years of history between the Jewish community and the Catholic Church, relations have been positive in recent decades. But October 7 has stirred up age-old apprehensions
By Rossella Tercatin
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
US Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, DC (left) shakes hands with Pope John Paul II during the General Audience with the newly appointed cardinals in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, February 23, 2001 (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti)
November 12, 2020, 3:07 pm
Vatican faces questions over sexual abuse of adults in wake of McCarrick report
Holy See will have to confront questions of power in relationships between senior and junior members of the clergy, as well as culture of silence and coverups
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis greets the crowd on his Popemobile as he arrives for a meeting with youths at the Cathedral Square in Vilnius, Lithuania, September 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
September 23, 2018, 8:23 am
Pope quips, ‘I am the devil,’ next to John Paul II
Pontiff acknowledges his detractors over church’s sex abuse scandals and his views on Communion for divorced and remarried couples
By AP
Pope Francis speaks during his weekly general audience at Aula Paolo VI (Paul VI Audience Hall) at the Vatican on August 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Andreas SOLARO)
August 2, 2018, 7:07 pm
Pope changes death penalty teaching, says it is now ‘inadmissible’
Head of Catholic Church praised by Amnesty International for supporting the anti-death penalty movement
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis kisses the hand of a Jewish man at the Hall of Remembrance during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem Monday, May 26, 2014. (photo credit: AP /L'Osservatore Romano)
July 16, 2016, 10:12 am
Poland’s chief rabbi hails Pope’s upcoming Auschwitz visit
Michael Schudrich says Francis’s trip to Nazi camp, during which he will meet Holocaust survivors, is ‘example for humanity’
By AFP
Polish actor Jacek Kawalec poses at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, on April 26, 2016. (AFP/PAP/Jakub Kaminski)
May 1, 2016, 4:02 am
John Paul II Superstar: Poland plans papal musical
‘Karol,’ a tale of the pontiff’s life, set to premiere in February 2017 with a cast of nearly 100
By Michel VIATTEAU
Pope John Paul II places a letter between the stones of Jerusalem’s Western Wall on March 26, 2000. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/Israel Government Press Office via Getty Images/JTA)
February 15, 2016, 1:48 pm
Pope John Paul II had intense friendship with married woman
While it doesn’t claim pontiff broke vow of celibacy, documentary points to strong feelings between him and Polish-born philosopher
By AFP
Pope Francis, left, embraces Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill after signing a joint declaration on religious unity at the Jose Marti International airport in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)
February 13, 2016, 9:02 am
In historic meet, Pope and Patriarch call to defend Mideast Christians
Francis embraces Russian Orthodox Church’s Kirill in a momentous step toward closing a nearly 1,000-year schism in Christianity
By Nicole Winfield
Elio Toaff in Rome, circa 1985 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/indeciso42 Free Document)
April 20, 2015, 2:54 pm
Chief rabbi of Rome of 51 years dies at 99
Elio Toaff hosted historic synagogue visit of pope John Paul II in 1986; Italian PM hails him as ‘a giant’
By JTA
Illustrative photo of graves in Jewish graveyard in Poland (Illustrative photo credit: AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 7, 2015, 5:49 pm
Graves vandalized in Polish town where Nazis tortured Jews
Dozens of headstones destroyed in Olkusz, scene of ‘Bloody Wednesday’ murder and beatings in 1940
By JTA
Ali Agca stands in front of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014. The Turkish gunman who shot and wounded John Paul II in 1981 laid white flowers Saturday on the saint's tomb in St. Peter's Basilica (photo credit: AP/Adnkronos International, ho)
December 28, 2014, 5:51 am
John Paul II gunman lays flowers at Vatican tomb
Pope had declared his forgiveness for Mehmet Ali Agca and worked to secure his release
By AP
Pope Francis addresses faithful from the window of his study overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during his Sunday Angelus prayer on July 13, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
October 29, 2014, 3:46 am
Were Pope’s evolution remarks a break from Catholic teaching?
Media coverage presented Francis’s speech as a move in a new direction, but it reflects long-standing Church ideas
By Lazar Berman
Pope Francis waving to the people after a mass in the Manger Square, next the Nativity Church, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 25, 2014 (photo credit: Atta Jaber/Flash90)
September 17, 2014, 10:41 am
Vatican downplays IS threat ahead of pope’s Albania trip
Iraq’s ambassador to the Holy See claims jihadists want to kill Francis, but admits not aware of specific plot
By Spencer Ho
Pope Paul VI, circa 1963 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
May 11, 2014, 7:07 pm
Pope Paul VI, first pontiff to visit Israel, to be beatified
Catholic leader came to the Holy Land in 1964, before the Vatican recognized the Jewish state
By JTA
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