{"id":6021,"date":"2013-03-19T00:17:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T06:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=6021"},"modified":"2013-03-19T00:17:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T06:17:39","slug":"pope-reaches-out-to-chief-rabbi-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/pope-reaches-out-to-chief-rabbi-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope reaches out to chief rabbi in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROME (JTA) &#8212; Pope Francis sent a personal message to Rome\u2019s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, underscoring his desire to foster Catholic-Jewish relations. The Catholic news agency Zenit said the message was dated March 13, the day that the former Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trusting in the protection of the Most High,\u201d Francis wrote, \u201cI very much hope to be able to contribute to the progress that relations between Jews and Catholics have experienced since the Second Vatican Council, in a spirit of renewed collaboration and at the service of a world that can be ever more harmonious with the will of the Creator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Francis also invited Di Segni, as well as the presidents of the Rome Jewish Community and the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, to the papal inauguration ceremony to be held in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Di Segni responded with a letter saying that the election of Francis \u201cgives us the hope that the path of friendship, respect and productive collaboration will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Pope%20reaches%20out%20to%20chief%20rabbi%20in%20Rome\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1970,8790,8795,891,8788,2309,1646,2310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6023,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}