The Daily Nationalist: Pope Francis – DN 041918

On Heaven and Earth2, page 188: “The Jewish People can no longer be accused of having killed God, as they were for a long time. When one reads the account of thePassion, it is clear.”

Francis I in response to open letter3 published Sep 2013: “What I can say, with the Apostle Paul, is that God has never stopped believing in the alliance made with Israel and that, through the terrible trials of these past centuries, the Jews have kept their faith in God.” 

Evangelii Gaudium6 n. 247: “We hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has never been revoked”. 

Press conference on flight from Brazil, July 28, 201313: “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” 

In-flight press conference from Azerbaijan to Rome20, Oct 2, 2016: "Last year I received a letter from a Spanish man who told me his story from the time when he was a child. He was born a female, a girl, and he suffered greatly because he felt that he was a boy but physically was a girl....He had the operation....He changed his civil identity, he got married and he wrote me a letter saying that it would bring comfort to him to come see me with his bride: he, who had been she, but is he. I received them. They were pleased.”  L’ Osservatore Romano, Oct 7, 2016 

Interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica1, September 24, 2013: “I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God, there is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being. 

Forward lists the pope as one of the Top 50 most important Jews in the world 

Pope Francis, 76, … has an unusually warm relationship with an Argentinian rabbi, has spoken in favor of pluralism and acceptance, plans to visit Israel early next year, and altogether has opened his arms to the world. As we wrote, “Francis has the power to affect how more human beings view the Jewish people than any one else on earth.” And so far, it seems, he’s been doing a pretty good job.Jane Eisner, “Why We Picked the Pope – and Angelina Jolie” Jewish Daily Forward, Nov. 12, 2013) 

The majority of us know how to coexist, it’s easier for us, and that’s a clear message. It’s a message that we have the same Father, up in Heaven, and the same Father down on earth, we adore him… What you have done, visiting these towns, the synagogues, mosques and Christian churches, is an act of brotherhood and a seed. A seed to build that culture of encounter that we all have to carry forward.
Pope Francis, Feb. 28, 201) 

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