John L. Allen Jr.
Pope Francis poses for a photo with a delegation from the Conference of European Rabbis, accompanied by Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican November 6. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media Leaders often speak at least as loudly by what they don’t say as by what they do, and such would appear to be the case in recent days regarding Pope Francis’s approach to Israel and the broader Jewish world. A series of perceived papal slights began in late October, when a group of family members…
