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 ...

“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 ...

John Paul’s landmark efforts to improve Vatican-Jewish relations ... it caused him deep grief to learn of the death of the pope’s friend, whom he also knew. “It didn’t matter the Kluger ...

ROME (AP) — Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II, has died in a clinic near Rome. Kluger's wife, Irene, told The ...