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What my friendship with Pope Francis taught me about interfaith dialogue
Read moreThis February, I will be a participant with my friend Pope Francis at a “Global Conference on Human Fraternity” hosted by the United Arab…
Martin Buber’s Sweet Sacrament of Dialogue
Read moreMartin Buber (1878-1965) stands among the most significant philosophers of the 20th century. While many studies have attempted to summarize…
The Life of Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospels
Read moreThe only sources for the life of Jesus of Nazareth are in the canonical gospels (or the gospels that were included in the authorised version…
Elie Wiesel as Theologian
Read morePlease let me begin by commenting on what Jean Duchesne has just quoted from Cardinal Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger. Lustiger held that there are…
Reconciliation in Judaism and Christianity. A Catholic Persepective
Read moreLecture given at ICCJ's conference in Budapest ("Towards Reconciliation in a Broken World: Jewish and Christian Contributions to Responsible…
The Pope and the Rabbi
Read moreOften, direct person-to-person communication will achieve better results than all formal utterances “about” an issue. This seems to have…
Remembering the Covenant: Judaism in an Anglican Theology of Interfaith Relations
Read moreThe question I begin with is this: “Does Anglican theology treat Christian-Jewish relations as a special case within interfaith relations?”…
Transforming “Divine Mystery” into “faith and reason”.
Read moreBenedict XVI on Catholic-Jewish relations-reactions.
Reorienting Jewish-Christian Relations and Dialogue
Read moreIt is very appropriate that we have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate – the “Declaration on the Relation of the Church…
Christianity’s Original Sin?
Read moreCan the church itself be guilty of sin? In 1994, Pope John Paul II addressed that question.[1] He distinguished between the sins of…