ROME (VINnews) — A Vatican official has responded to an Israeli rabbi who criticized recent comments by Pope Leo XIV about the conflict between Israel and Iran, according to a report by the The Times of Israel.
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Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Weisz, a member of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate and its interreligious dialogue committee with the Vatican, wrote to the pope expressing concern that the pope’s public remarks suggested moral equivalence between Israel and those attacking it. Weisz argued that framing the conflict in such terms risks obscuring Israel’s right to self-defense.
Flavio Pace, a senior official in the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, replied to the letter, thanking the rabbi and stating that relations between the Vatican and the Chief Rabbinate will continue to develop despite disagreements. The response did not directly address the substance of the criticism.
The exchange comes amid broader tensions surrounding international reactions to the war. The Times of Israel reported the correspondence and said it was unclear whether the reply represented the pope’s official position or a personal response.
For religion that has caused millennium iof strife and war this is numerous if not sick
But were was the Vatican while moslems were killing Christian’s in Lebanon or Syria or thru out Africa even today Not a word
But Isreal that has protected Lebanese, Syrian citizens from being slaughter is criticized and condemned
The pope should stick to popery !
the pope has a goyisha kop
Guess it depends on whom the Rabbi addressed in his letter to the pope. I don’t suppose the pope reads everything or responds to it. I think the Rabbi is correct about moral equivalency. And I think that the Pope not responding himself is a slap in the face.
We should stop commenting on everything the Pope says it gives him credibility
I wonder how many times in history the Catholic Church has been proven to be on the wrong side of an issue. It seems to me that it is more often than not.
Why have the recent popes been woke/leftists?
Rabbi is CORRECT
Rabbi, please stay of out of this. Let them hash it out without us.
Please pray for President Trump, he is being attacked by Islamists, woke right and left, pope, communists, etc. pray for protection and wisdom for President Trump.
Who cares what popeye says ? His a clown.
The Pope did not respond Because He Agrees!!!!
With all due respect, the current pope sounds like a SHMOK
It’s becoming a religious r”l rabbi vs the pope,
It takes a jew to make the Vatican relevant it allways has
The Pope is to Catholics what “Daas Torah” is to the chareidim: infallible. Imagine if one of the so-called Jewish Popes or “gedolei ha’dor” issued a proclamation, and some shmendrick criticizes it, would the Godol respond?!
Why should the pope respond to some random mizrachi who is just spouting political talking points