Pope and israel

The legacy of Pope Francis, marking a month since his passing - opinion

It is unfortunate that in his twilight years, the more disputable aspects of his views and conduct came increasingly to the fore, overshadowing gestures of goodwill and rights.

 AT A ceremony in 2016 where he presented his credentials as Israel’s ambassador to the Vatican, Oren David gifts Pope Francis with a replica of a sixth-century hanukkiah found in the Ancient Synagogue of Ein Gedi
 Professor Michal Bar-Asher Segal researches Christianity.

'Revolutionary at the Vatican': A portrait of Pope Francis

 A post to X/Twitter by Israel wishing condolences over the death of Pope Francis, which has since been deleted.

Israel deletes pope condolence tweet over backlash fear

 Pope Francis in March 2013.

A Jewish appreciation of Pope Francis - opinion


NO HOLDS BARRED: The pope asks me to pray for him on Israel

My meeting with the pontiff at the Vatican was a warm and important exchange.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach meets Pope Francis at the Vatican

The Johnny Appleseed of Judeophobia studies

How a Canadian professor is looking to spread the study of Jew hatred across the academic world; ‘Our goal is to provide weapons to fight this scourge’

ANTI-SEMITISM FIGHTER Prof. Charles Small presents Pope Francis with his policy paper on global anti-Semitism at Rome’s Great Synagogue last week.

Today in History: Pope Pius refused to support a Jewish Jerusalem

After preaching anti-Semitism for more than a millennium, when looking at the prophecy of the Jewish People returning to their land, the Catholic Church could not come to terms with the reality.

Pope Pius X.

Two Israelis arrested for flying drone over Vatican City

The drone was equipped with a high resolution camera which was confiscated by authorities.

Drone flown by Israelis over Tiber River near Vatican

Catholics should not try to convert Jews, Vatican says in landmark document

Christianity and Judaism are intertwined and God never annulled his covenant with the Jewish people, document reads.

Pope Francis talks as he leads the weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican

President Rivlin meets Pope on official state visit to Vatican, gifts exchanged

Rivlin was escorted by the Vatican's Swiss guard and was received by Prefect of the Papal Household, Msgr. Georg Gänswein prior to meeting the pontiff at his private library.

President Reuven Rivlin meets with Pope Francis for an official state visit at  at the Vatican, September 2015

Grapevine: Of presidents and popes

The first pope to visit the Holy Land was Pope Paul VI in 1964, almost 30 years prior to the establishment in 1993 of full and formal diplomatic relations between Israel and the Vatican.

Pope Francis

Poll: Pope Francis' approval rating dips in US ahead of September visit

Some 71 percent of US Catholics polled said they approved of the pope, down from 89 percent a year earlier.

Pope Francis gives the thumb up as he arrives to lead the weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Another Tack: The Holy See’s unholy sanctimony

Whereas a Palestinian state is recognized prematurely, it took the Vatican a whopping 45-and-a-half years after the fact to bring itself to officially recognize Jewish self-determination.

Pope Paul VI at Meggido in 1964: He made sure the name Israel would never escape his lips. President Zalman Shazar stands to his right.

The Vatican, Palestinian statehood and international law

Much as the government of Israel, seeking to challenge a manifestly contrived PA declaration, will cite correctly relevant Oslo Agreement violations, the PA will then counter-argue, by fiat, that its own authority to declare an independent state is “peremptory.”

Israeli soldiers check cars at a checkpoint near the West Bank City of Jericho