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As the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio had a very deep relationship with the Jews of his city. He cultivated open dialogues with rabbis, community leaders, and individuals and developed many friendships that deepened significantly over time.
After the unprecedented resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, and my friend’s historic election as the first pope from Latin America, everyone who read about this cardinal from “the end of the world” , learned how important to him were his experiences with the Jewish people. These include the memorable sentences that “Dialogue and friendship with the children of Israel are part of the life of Jesus’ disciples” and that “God continues to work among the people of the Old Covenant and to bring forth treasures of wisdom which flow from their encounter with his word.
While in Jerusalem, Pope Francis was the first pontiff to place a bouquet of flowers on the tomb of Theodor Herzl, the father of political Zionism, thereby honoring the movement that recreated Jewish culture in its ancient homeland. Ever vigilant about human rights, he had the previous day also placed his hands on the wall that divides Israel from Palestine. I see this as more than a mere political act.
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