Very early on, we, not only me, had the impression that we were dealing with a saint,” said a longtime employee of Vatican ...

The 63-year-old Roman Jewish businessman ... porcelain set to both John Paul II and Benedict XVI. “When Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013, we reached out to the pope’s staff, but his ...

Would he be a non-European unfamiliar with the Jewish people and the weighty ... “May God bless you.” Pope John Paul II had made outreach to Jews one of the pillars of his papacy.

which is celebrated for eight days by our Jewish brothers and sisters in the world, to whom I send my best wishes for peace and fraternity," the pope said during his Angelus address on Saint ...

Enemies and strangers became friends ... pope said. ROME (JTA) — Jewish leaders met with Pope Francis in Rome on the 50th anniversary of the Nostra Aetate, the declaration promulgated by Pope ...

The pope made the warning Friday during a meeting at the Vatican with Italian Jewish leaders, including Riccardo Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Rome. Commemoration of the 1943 deportation ...