NEWSMAX: …The letter, published on the front page of La Repubblica on Wednesday, came in response to editorials written by [Eugenio Scalfari, a prominent Italian atheist ] that had directly addressed the pontiff on issues of faith and religion, the Times of Israel reported.
[Pope Francis] added that: “What I can say to you, with the Apostle Paul, is that God’s fidelity to the close covenant with Israel never failed and that, through the terrible trials of these centuries, the Jews have kept their faith in God. And for this, we shall never be sufficiently grateful to them.”
By doing so, Francis noted, Jews served as an example for Christians. “Precisely by persevering in the faith of the God of the Covenant,” he said, they “called all, also us Christians, to the fact that we are always waiting, as pilgrims, for the Lord’s return.” … (more)
