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The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership.

God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.

Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.

Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.

It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.

A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.

When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.

I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

...it is easier to make powerful ideas practical than it is to make pedestrian ideas powerful.