Jerzy Kluger, the Polish Jewish boyhood friend of the late Pope John Paul who had a major influence on the pontiff’s revolutionary relations with Jews, has died, friends said on Monday.

JERUSALEM — Jews around the world remembered Pope Francis as a friend to the Jewish people ... Like his predecessors Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, once he became pope, “Francis ...

World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder lauded Pope Francis as “a true moral leader, a man of deep faith and humanity, and a steadfast friend to ... of Pope Paul VI’s Nostra Aetate ...

“Unlike John Paul II,” Watson said, “Pope Benedict had not grown up with a lot of close Jewish friends, and so his reflections on the Jewish-Christian relationship sometimes felt more ...

The next pope ... and John Paul II,” Ariel Toaff, Elio’s son, said in a Facebook post. He was scathing in his assessment of Francis. “Maybe he didn’t hate Jews, maybe he even had Jewish ...