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March 6, 2025

The Jewish Family That Makes the Pope’s China

The Limentanis and a fragile, important relationship.

While the pope no longer holds secular and religious authority over the city of Rome, and no longer forces its Jews to listen to a sermon about why they should accept Christianity on Shabbat afternoons, relations between Roman Jews and the Vatican remain important. And fortunately, they have been good for the past half-century or more. Rossella Tercatin describes one Jewish family’s particular connection to the pontiff, and the damage done by Pope Francis’s recent anti-Israel turn:

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