David Rosen
By David Rosen
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Opinion The Point of the Pope’s Visit
Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority have all hailed Pope Francis’s whirlwind pilgrimage as a success — and indeed, the very fact that it went as smoothly as it did was no small achievement for all involved. Pope Francis’s global superstar status guaranteed media focus on local voices and images wherever he went. For the…
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Opinion The Paper That Rewrote Catholic-Jewish Relations
Forty years ago, the Catholic Church revolutionized attitudes within the Christian world toward Jews and Judaism with the declaration known as Nostra Aetate, a document that emerged from the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. Prior to this document, the perception that had prevailed within the Christian world over the centuries was that Jews had been rejected…
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