This from John Allen in Rome:
Rome rabbi applauds Anti Defamation League for boycotting Catholic-Jewish relations event over French cardinal who converted from Judaism to Catholicism
By boycotting a 2005 event featuring French Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the former archbishop of Paris who is a convert from Judaism, Jewish leaders showed “we don’t have to renounce our dignity,” the Chief Rabbi of Rome told a national convention of the Anti-Defamation League on Friday.
Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni of Rome said that both he and Abraham Foxman, the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, declined to take part in a Rome celebration of Nostra Aetate, the document of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) which set a new path for Catholic/Jewish relations, because Lustiger was featured on the program.
Lustiger, the son of Jewish immigrants to France from Poland, converted to Catholicism at the age of 15. (His given name at birth was “Aaron.”) Lustiger’s mother died at Auschwitz. Given that background, Lustiger has long been seen by the Vatican as a bridge to the Jewish community, and he is a veteran of Catholic/Jewish relations.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
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