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I met Pope Leo XIV. What comes next?

JL;DR SUMMARY In a significant symbol of progressing Catholic-Jewish relations, Jewish leaders, including Rabbi Noam E. Marans of the American Jewish Committee, attended the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Pope FrancisJewish LeadersAmerican Jewish CommitteeInterfaith CooperationNostra AetateInterreligious DialogueIsraeli DiplomacyCatholic Jewish RelationsPope Leo Xiv

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"It would be unfathomable for my grandparents, born in Jerusalem and Bialystok, to imagine that their grandson or any Jew, for that matter would be invited as a representative of the Jewish people to Pope Leo XIVs Inaugural Mass."
Bialystok, Podlachia, Poland
"It would be unfathomable for my grandparents, born in Jerusalem and Bialystok, to imagine that their grandson or any Jew, for that matter would be invited as a representative of the Jewish people to Pope Leo XIVs Inaugural Mass."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"I thanked him for his letter, gave him a copy of the AJC-U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Translate Hate: The Catholic Edition and played on our shared Americanism with a cap from his beloved Chicago White Sox, which I think he appreciated above all."
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"given his exemplary relationship with the Argentinian Jewish community and deep friendship with Abraham Skorka, a leading Argentinian rabbi."
Israel
"but also due to his propensity to treat the careful language of post-Nostra Aetate Catholicism lightly."

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