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Pope pledges strengthened dialogue with Jews

Among his first messages, Pope Leo XIV expressed his intention to strengthen the Catholic Church’s ties with the Jewish community.

Annual Jerusalem lecture focuses on Catholic-Jewish relations

The work of eradicating antisemitism in the Catholic Church and building strong relationships between Catholics and Jews has come a long way in 60 years, but there is still work to be done, according to Rabbi Ruth Langer.

Remember Jesus’ Jewishness, Bernardin speaker says

Catholics and other Christians would do well to remember the Jewishness of Jesus, according to Mary C. Boys, who delivered the 27th annual Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture at North Shore Congregation Israel March 4.

Remarks of Cardinal Cupich at Anshe Emet Synagogue Nov. 11

Cardinal Cupich delivered the following remarks at Anshe Emet Synagogue Nov. 11.

Faith is a call to dialogue and peacemaking, pope tells rabbis

Christians and Jews are called to bear witness to God’s word through dialogue and “to his peace with our actions,” Pope Francis said in a message to the Conference of European Rabbis.

Ancient word: Jews, Christians study shared past in Vatican manuscripts

From a dark past of once allowing and ordering the censoring, banning and burning of the Talmud and other Hebrew texts, the Vatican has deepened its decades of fruitful dialogue and cooperation with Jewish leaders with a new interfaith study program.

Cardinal joins online event against antisemitism

Cardinal Cupich joined Catholic, Jewish and civil leaders in an online event organized by the international Combat Antisemitism Movement Feb. 21 to celebrate the “heroic actions” of Bishop of Assisi Giuseppe Placido Nicolini in allowing Jews fleeing deportation during the Holocaust to be housed in his diocese.

Young adults learn about Scripture through Catholic, Jewish lenses

On the evening of Aug. 21, 18 people gathered in the West Loop. They were students and young adults: some Catholic, some Jewish, some neither.

Pope announces access to wartime documents about Pius XII in Vatican Secret Archives

Declaring that the Catholic Church is unafraid of history, Pope Francis announced that documents in the Vatican Secret Archives relating to the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII will be open to scholars in 2020.

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