Walter Cardinal Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, recently gave talks at Yale Divinity School and St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel at Yale, in which he talked about the recent developments in interfaith dialogue. He said that strong relationships among Catholic and Jewish leaders helped to alleviate some of the recent tension that had resulted from the lifting of dissident-bishop Richard Williamson’s excommunication. More here.

Michael O’Loughlin

Austen Ivereigh is a fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, at the University of Oxford, and a biographer of Pope Francis. In 2020 he collaborated with Pope Francis on Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future, published by Simon & Schuster. His most recent book is First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis, published by Loyola Press.