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Report: Pope Francis Told Visiting Jewish Delegation Joke About Antisemitic Priest
Report: Pope Francis Tells Jewish Delegation to Vatican Joke About Antisemitic Priest
Pope Francis told a joke about an antisemitic Catholic priest to a group of Latin American Jews visiting the Vatican last week, the UK’s Jewish Chronicle reported on Thursday.
Claudio Epelman, executive director of the Latin American Jewish Congress (LAJC), recounted the pontiff’s stab at humor: “One day during his sermon, the priest found a way to attack Jews as usual, in a vicious way. During a pause, Jesus got down from his cross, looked at the Virgin Mary and said, ‘Let’s get out of here, Mum, they don’t seem to like us.’”
The group, which included leaders of the Jewish World Congress, reportedly found the joke funny and Epelman later told the Argentinian newspaper La Nación, “It’s incredible that the Pope would tell a joke like this. It says so much about the wonderful relationship he has with Jews.”
Epelman said the Pope then prayed that God would “bring us closer together as brothers and make us better at serving those in need.”
He also said he had known the pontiff when he was Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, and that Francis always had an informal style of getting to know people, which in the end helped him connect with them.
The Pope, said Epelman, always dealt “directly with the leaders of the Argentine Jewish community and then [when he was elected Pope] we all felt we were [his] best friend.”
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