Pope Francis: 'Inside every Christian is a Jew'

Vatican City
Underscoring the close ties between Christianity and Judaism and calling Holocaust denial "madness," Pope Francis told an interviewer that "inside every Christian is a Jew."
In an interview published Friday in Spain's La Vanguardia newspaper, the pope said dialogue between the two faiths can sometimes be a "hot potato."
"I believe that interreligious dialogue must investigate the Jewish roots of Christianity and the Christian flowering of Judaism," Francis said. "I understand it is a challenge, a hot potato, but it is possible to live as brothers."
Francis' statement seems to go further than his predecessor, St. John Paul II, who made headlines in 1986 as the first pope to visit Rome's main synagogue and declared Jews to be the "elder brothers" of the Christian faith.

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