Pope Invites Grand Rabbi
Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:00 AM
Torah scrolls
Pope Benedict XVI has asked Jewish Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen to address next month’s World Synod of Bishops on the Word of God.
Rabbi Cohen, who is the grand rabbi of Haifa, Israel, is the first Jewish spiritual leader invited to speak at a world synod.
The Synod on the Bible will be held in Rome Oct. 5-26.
Rabbi Cohen, who is active in Jewish-Catholic dialogue, told Catholic News Service... READ MORE
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What’s Doable with Dialogue
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:38 AM
The Pope greets Islamic representatives in Sept. 2006. (CNS/Reuters)
This headline yesterday in The New York Times is partly right, and partly wrong: “Pope Questions Interfaith Dialogue.”
What’s right is that Pope Benedict XVI has explained again that there are limits to what can be attained through interreligious dialogue, this time in a letter he wrote to an Italian scholar and politician.
What’s wrong is that the headline implies the Pope is... READ MORE
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