In his first Mass as cardinal, he acknowledged the flood of congratulations he had received from all quarters and all sects of his diocese. “Cardinals in our time are no longer the princes of the church,” Cardinal Pizzaballa said, “but its servants and those of the people of God.”
Noga Tarnopolsky
Noga Tarnopolsky is a correspondent covering Israel and Palestine and a frequent contributor to The Daily Beast. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and Ha'aretz among other publications.
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Interview: Get to know Jerusalem’s first cardinal
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For Palestinians with disabilities, there is room at the inn this year in Bethlehem
The latest boutique hotel to open its doors in Bethlehem’s Old City, just minutes away from Manger Square, is the Morcos Nassar Palace, which doubles as a humanitarian project unique in Palestine and possibly in the Arab world.
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‘I always pray with a rosary’: Inside Joe Biden’s personal pilgrimage to Bethlehem
One part of President Joe Biden’s ultra-publicized trip to the Middle East took place in private, away from the eyes of any of the journalists who accompanied him on the five-day visit.
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The immigrant neighborhood—and interfaith friendships—that made Pope Francis
The portrait of Pope Francis that emerges from conversations with his friends is that of a man as resolutely down-to-earth and dependably Argentinian as his immigrant neighborhood.