A Shared Path
Jews and Catholics face the present, looking to the future
R elations between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people are, to use a biblical metaphor, like a house built on solid ground. It can endure the buffeting winds of whatever storm might tear down another house built on less secure foundations. This is because the builders have been master architects, like Pope John XXIII and Cardinal Augustin Bea, S.J., Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Jules Isaac.
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