October 2016
- War strained the Israel-Vatican bond. Will the pope use the ceasefire to heal those wounds?As the ceasefire took hold this weekend, Pope Leo XIV called it “a spark of hope in the Holy Land.” To understand the new pope’s approach to Israel, after he came into his role at a time of unusually strained relations between the Vatican and Israel, a bit of history helps. The Catholic narrative when... […]
- ‘It never goes away’: A former hostage describes the paradox of freedom for Israelis who returned home from GazaBarry Rosen knows what it means to wait for freedom. He spent 444 days as a hostage, one of 52 Americans held prisoner at the U.S. embassy in Iran from 1979 to 1981. He described when he was reunited with his family as “one of the greatest moments” of his life. But Rosen also knows... […]