{"id":8130,"date":"2004-01-20T00:10:35","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T00:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/cardinals_at_yeshiva_u.html"},"modified":"2004-01-20T00:10:35","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T00:10:35","slug":"cardinals_at_yeshiva_u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/cardinals_at_yeshiva_u.html","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals at Yeshiva U."},"content":{"rendered":"

From the NYTimes<\/a><\/p>\n

The Catholic delegation, which included Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, was assembled by Cardinal Lustiger, who converted from Judaism as a youngster and speaks Yiddish. Exposing his fellow cardinals to the Yeshiva world, he said, was a way of showing them how to be men of faith in the modern world.<\/p>\n

…At a lunch later in the day, Cardinal Lustiger came over to greet Rabbi Steinsaltz, a puckish figure who good-naturedly asked him what Catholic religious authority gave him dispensation from obeying Jewish laws, given that the cardinal remains a Jew in the eyes of Judaism. Cardinal Lustiger answered, none, really, according to the rabbi, though it was not clear how serious the discussion was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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