LINKS:

Pope John Paul II: In His Own Words
Anti Defamation League

Pilgram Father
Special Supplement from Ha'aretz

Pilgrimage Into the Lion's Den
Special Supplement from Jerusalem Report

Jerusalem Post Papal Visit Supplement

Vatican

Israel's Foreign Ministry

Catholic Information Center

Jubilee 2000

Jerusalem Municipality

 

SOME COMMENTARIES AND OBSERVATIONS:

Jerusalem Post:

The pope's promise
Op-Ed by Uri Dan
March 23, 2000

The pope in Israel
March 21, 2000
The people of Israel should welcome John Paul II as a friend of the Jewish people, and welcome the path of repentance upon which the Church has seriously embarked.

Ha'aretz:

The Pope and the pitfalls and potential of interfaith dialogue
by Ron Kronish, March 26, 2000

Pope arrives on 'peace pilgrimage'
Can go no further on Shoah
March 21, 2000
By Lorenzo Cremonesi

Last look at the lands of promise
March 21, 2000
By Thomas O'Dwyer
Pope John Paul II arrives today, but yesterday he set the tone of his visit at Mount Nebo. Yet many Israelis still do not get it - eyes have they and see not, they have ears and hear not. The Pope is not coming today as a Crusader, or an Inquisitor, or a missionary, or an agent of Yasser Arafat. He is coming as a pilgrim, an old and holy man - but no one's fool for all that.

 

Remarks by President Ezer WeizmanFollowing his Meeting with Pope John Paul II, Jerusalem, March 23, 2000
Address by Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 23 March 2000
Chief Rabbis' Greetings to Pope John Paul II
Address by the President of the State of Israel Ezer Weizman
Welcome ceremony at Ben-Gurion Airport
March 21, 2000
Israel MInistry of Foreign Affairs
JCPA's Resolution Welcoming Pope John Paul II’s Upcoming Trip to Israel

Papal Apology, 12 March, 2000

Israel Welcomes Visit to Israel by Pope John Paul II
PM Barak Welcomes Pope's Visit, January 12, 2000
Catholics and Jews Confront the Holocaust and Each Other, Oct. 21, 1999
by Dr. Eugene Fisher, Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See and The State of Israel
December 30, 1993

Pope John Paul II: Pilgrim to the Holy Land
by Rabbi Michael A. Signer
(Including a Summary of the Pope's Itinerary)

Reform Jewish Movement Welcomes the Upcoming Trip to Israel by Pope John Paul II
Leading Cardinal Stresses Jews' Historic Link to Jerusalem - From The Jerusalem Post -- Friday, November 12, 1999
A Catholic Views Zionism and The State of Israel, by Rev. Thomas F. Stransky, Paulist Rector of Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies, Jerusalem.
The "Holy Land" - quarterly published by the Franciscan custody of the Holy Land
An on-line version of a temporary exhibition created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. The exhibition focuses on the actions of Father Jacques, a Carmelite friar, who hid several Jewish boys in his school in Avon, France. This exhibition will be on display from April 11 - October 14, 1997 on the Concourse Level of the Museum.
John Cardinal O'Connor's 5760 Rosh HaShannah Mesage to the Jewish Community
Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, Hanukah 1999 Message to the Jewish Community
Rembert G. Weakland, Archbishop of Milwaukee, Jubilee Proclamation to the Jewish Community, November 7, 1999
Open letter to the Jewish community from Most Rev. Manuel D. Moreno, D.D. Bishop of Tucson, January 7, 2000, ARIZONA JEWISH POST