{"id":87407,"date":"2025-04-21T07:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=87407"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:33:06","slug":"pope-francis-who-advanced-churchs-relationships-with-jews-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/pope-francis-who-advanced-churchs-relationships-with-jews-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis, who advanced church\u2019s relationships with Jews, dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Pope Francis, who significantly advanced the Catholic Church\u2019s relationship with Jews by actively promoting dialogue, reconciliation and a strong stance against antisemitism \u2014 relations that were tested after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war \u2014 died Monday, one day after marking Easter with a public appearance in the Vatican. He was 88.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87408\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87408\" class=\"wp-image-87408 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-1536x979.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize.jpg 1634w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/191;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87408\" class=\"wp-image-87408 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize-1536x979.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/POpe-Francis-with-Hispanic-Jeiwsh-leaders-08262019-resize.jpg 1634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-87408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis meets with Hispanic Jewish leaders from Argentina, Spain and the United States at the Vatican on Aug. 22 2019. (Courtesy of Hispanic Jewish Foundation)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Vatican did not give a cause of death. Francis suffered multiple health conditions in recent years and had been hospitalized for several weeks in February with what the Vatican called a \u201ccomplex clinical picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Francis had rebounded to make public appearances and, on Sunday, meet privately with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, a convert to Catholicism whom he had indirectly rebuked before his hospitalization for citing Catholic doctrine in defending the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>The first Jesuit and first Latin American to serve as pope, Francis assumed the leadership of the Catholic Church in 2013 after years of building and sustaining Jewish relationships in his native Argentina. In 2010, he co-wrote, with Rabbi Abraham Skorka, \u201cOn Heaven and Earth,\u201d a book based on their public conversations on differences and similarities between Judaism and Catholicism.<\/p>\n<p>Francis met frequently with Jewish leaders and paid a state visit to Israel in 2014. He often invoked the spirit of Nostra Aetate, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1965 as part of Vatican II, which repudiated centuries of anti-Jewish theology and inaugurated a new era in Catholic-Jewish relations. He controversially restricted the Latin Mass, a symbol of the pre-Vatican II church whose liturgy included a call for the conversion of the Jews.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Francis reiterated the spirit of Nostra Aetate in 2013, speaking to the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations. \u201cDue to our common roots, a Christian cannot be anti-Semitic!\u201d the pope declared, before going on to describe his warm relations with Jewish clergy in his native Argentina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the joy of maintaining relations of sincere friendship with leaders of the Jewish world,\u201d said Francis. \u201cWe talked often of our respective religious identities, the image of man found in the Scriptures, and how to keep an awareness of God alive in a world now secularized in many ways. \u2026 But above all, as friends, we enjoyed each other\u2019s company, we were all enriched through encounter and dialogue, and we welcomed each other, and this helped all of us grow as people and as believers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such statements sustained a relationship sometimes strained when Francis adopted positions at odds with the core concerns of many Jews. In May 2015, an expansion of Vatican relations with Palestinian leadership following the Palestinians\u2019 unilateral pursuit of statehood drew criticism from Israeli and Jewish leaders, who at the time viewed direct negotiations with Israel as the only credible path to peace.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87409\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87409\" class=\"wp-image-87409 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-1024x569.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-1024x569.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-300x167.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-768x427.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-1536x853.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-2048x1138.webp 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/569;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87409\" class=\"wp-image-87409 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-1024x569.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-1024x569.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-300x167.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-768x427.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-1536x853.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211102890-scaled-e1745232455119-2048x1138.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-87409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis meets with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and delegation during an audience at Casa Santa Marta on April 20, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Vatican Media via Vatican Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Francis also strongly defended the record of Pope Pius XII, who served as pope during the Holocaust. Critics accuse Pius of having turned a blind eye to Jewish suffering in the Shoah, while the Vatican has long maintained he worked behind the scenes to save Jews. In 2019, Jewish groups welcomed Francis\u2019s announcement that the Vatican Archives covering the Pius papacy would open to researchers beginning in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>For scholars such as David Kertzer, who has written books about the Vatican during World War II, the newly available material only confirmed the impression that Pius, despite his personal objections to Hitler and Nazism and occasionally valiant attempts to protect Italy\u2019s Jews, was more concerned with protecting the church and its future under fascism.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel-Hamas war, which followed the deadly Hamas attacks in Israel in Oct. 7, 2023, further strained relations between Francis, the Jews and Israelis. In November 2024, citing experts saying \u201cwhat is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,\u201d Francis called for the charge \u2014 which Israel strenuously rejects \u2014 to be \u201ccarefully investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December, Francis attended the inauguration of a nativity scene at the Vatican that positioned baby Jesus on a keffiyeh, or Palestinian scarf \u2014 a nod to activists who have identified Jesus, a Jew born in Roman times, as a Palestinian. Both incidents drew outcry from Jewish groups, and the nativity scene was removed.<\/p>\n<p>Defenders of the pope said his statements about the Israel-Hamas war were in keeping with Catholic doctrine on the value of peace and human life, and did not reflect on Francis\u2019s commitment to fighting antisemitism. He also repeatedly called for the release of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a document issued last December by the American Jewish Committee, \u201cTranslate Hate,\u201d included Catholic commentaries written, with the pope\u2019s blessing, by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. The commentaries endorsed key post-Vatican II doctrine on teaching about Judaism and respecting the Jews\u2019 deep religious connection towards Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the disagreements, Francis maintained warm relations with Jewish leaders involved in interfaith dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are clearly living in a renewed era of Catholic-Jewish relations, \u201cRabbi Noam Marans, the AJC\u2019s director of interreligious and intergroup relations, wrote in September 2017, on the eve of the pope\u2019s second visit to the United States. \u201cWhen there are disagreements, they are discussed and often resolved among friends, but even when unresolved, the conversation rarely devolves into a contretemps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During that visit, Jewish leaders took part in \u201cWitness for Peace: A Multireligious Gathering with Pope Francis\u201d at the 9\/11 Memorial and Museum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15966\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/francis1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15966\" class=\"wp-image-15966 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/francis1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/francis1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/francis1-1024x718.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/210;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15966\" class=\"wp-image-15966 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/francis1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/francis1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/francis1-1024x718.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis seen with Israeli president Shimon Peres at a ceremony held at the president&#8217;s residence in Jerusalem on May 26, 2014. Pope Francis is on a 3-day visit to Jordan, West Bank and Israel. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel\/FLASH90)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jewish groups also appreciated Francis\u2019s frequent pleas to his followers to heed the lessons of the Holocaust. \u201cThe memory of the Shoah and its atrocious violence must never be forgotten,\u201d the pope said in 2018 in a message through the Vatican\u2019s secretary of state in Berlin. \u201cIt should be a constant warning for all of us of an obligation to reconciliation, of reciprocal comprehension and love toward our \u2018elder brothers,\u2019 the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Pope Francis and Rabbi Skorka co-authored an introduction for a book by three Argentine doctors about the Nazi medical experiments. The essay calls the Holocaust a \u201chell.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe human arrogance exposed during the Shoah was the action of people who felt like gods, and shows the aberrant dimension in which we can fall if we forget where we came from and where we are going,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The pope\u2019s friendship with Skorka, rector of the Latin American Rabbinic Seminary, dated to 1997, when the pope, then known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became coadjutor bishop of the Buenos Aires archdiocese. In addition to collaborating in 2010 on their book \u201cOn Heaven and Earth,\u201d the bishop and the rabbi appeared frequently together on Argentinian television.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2013 interview with the New York Jewish Week, Skorka said Francis had a \u201cspecial relationship towards Jews and Jewishness\u201d and a commitment to Nostra Aetate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a theological point of view, according to what I spoke with him about, he and other important Catholic thinkers believe in cooperation between Jews and Christians in order to get a better world \u2014 respecting one another and sharing the challenge to bring more spirituality and justice to the world,\u201d Skorka said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, on Dec. 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires. He served as archbishop of the Argentinian capital beginning in 1998 and as cardinal after 2001. In contrast to the often forbidding Benedict XVI, his immediate predecessor as pope, Bergoglio was said to be warm and modest, cooking his own meals and personally answering his phone.<\/p>\n<p>Friendly relations with Jewish clergy was a hallmark of his priesthood. In 2005, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio attended Rosh Hashanah services at the Benei Tikva Slijot synagogue in September 2007. Bergoglio was the first public personality to sign a petition for justice in the 1994 AMIA bombing case, in which 85 people were killed in a terrorist attack at a Buenos Aires Jewish center. In June 2010, he visited the rebuilt AMIA building to talk with Jewish leaders. In 2024, after years of stalled investigations and charges of a cover-up, an Argentinian court ruled that Iran directed the attack, and that it was carried by Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15783\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-francis-and-netanyahu-at-airport-web.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15783\" class=\"wp-image-15783 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-francis-and-netanyahu-at-airport-web-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-francis-and-netanyahu-at-airport-web-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-francis-and-netanyahu-at-airport-web.jpg 850w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/214;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15783\" class=\"wp-image-15783 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-francis-and-netanyahu-at-airport-web-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-francis-and-netanyahu-at-airport-web-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-francis-and-netanyahu-at-airport-web.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis, right, walks with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu during a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport on May 25, 2014, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo by Avi Ohayon\/GPO via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While he took mostly traditional views on issues like same-sex marriage, Beroglio also had a reputation as a social reformer. Israel Singer, the former head of the World Jewish Congress, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency soon after Francis\u2019s election as pope that he spent time working with Bergoglio when the two were distributing aid to the poor in Buenos Aires in the early 2000s, part of a joint Jewish-Catholic program called Tzedaka.<\/p>\n<p>Bergoglio wrote the foreword to a book by Rabbi Sergio Bergman, a Buenos Aires legislator, and in 2012 hosted a Kristallnacht memorial event at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral with Rabbi Alejandro Avruj from the NCI-Emanuel World Masorti congregation.<\/p>\n<p>During that visit, Bergoglio told the congregation that he was there to examine his heart \u201clike a pilgrim, together with you, my elder brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was 76 when he was elected to the papacy following the resignation of the German-born Benedict XVI. Francis was the first pope to come from outside Europe in more than a millennium.<\/p>\n<p>He inherited a church wrestling with an array of challenges, including a shortage of priests, a sexual abuse crisis and difficulties governing the Vatican itself.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Francis renewed his commitment to fostering relations between Catholics and Jews and condemning anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDialogue and friendship with the children of Israel are part of the life of Jesus\u2019 disciples,\u201d Francis wrote in \u201cEvangelii Gaudium\u201d (The Joy of the Gospel), described as the flagship document of his papacy. \u201cThe friendship which has grown between us makes us bitterly and sincerely regret the terrible persecutions which they have endured, and continue to endure, especially those that have involved Christians.\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%20Francis%2C%20who%20advanced%20church%E2%80%99s%20relationships%20with%20Jews%2C%20dies%20at%2088\";<\/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":87408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3129,8790,8795,2261,8788,2309,1877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87407"}],"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=87407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87410,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87407\/revisions\/87410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}