{"id":11210,"date":"2009-02-11T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_jewish_leaders_to_meet_pope_optimistic_end_to_bishop_issue\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:00:26","slug":"ap_jewish_leaders_to_meet_pope_optimistic_end_to_bishop_issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11210","title":{"rendered":"AP: Jewish leaders to meet pope; optimistic end to bishop issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish groups are mending ties with the Vatican following a dispute over a Holocaust-denying bishop.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the World Jewish Congress said Monday they were optimistic about Vatican-Jewish relations after meeting with top Vatican officials. In addition, a group of American Jewish leaders will meet with Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday to commend him for his &#8220;firm stand&#8221; to end the dispute over Bishop Richard Williamson.<\/p>\n<p>And Israel&#8217;s chief rabbinate, the Jewish state&#8217;s highest religious authority, confirmed that it would resume theological talks next month that had been suspended in the wake of the Williamson affair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-02-10-jewish-catholic_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish groups are mending ties with the Vatican following a dispute over a Holocaust-denying bishop. Representatives of the World Jewish Congress said Monday they were optimistic about Vatican-Jewish relations after meeting with top Vatican officials. In addition, a group of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11210\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,161,429,154,155,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-inter-faith-relations","category-judaism","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}