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PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) \u2014 Dialogue and bridge-building have emerged as early indicators of what Pope Leo XIV\u2019s interreligious approach to Jews and Muslims may look like, giving hope that Pope Francis-era advances in the church\u2019s interfaith relations will continue, experts told OSV News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his first public address \u2014 delivered minutes after his 8 May election \u2014 \u201cPope Leo XIV clearly prioritized dialogue for his new pontificate, as it was for his predecessor Pope Francis,\u201d said Philip Cunningham, professor of theology and religious studies at St. Joseph\u2019s University and co-director of its Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cunningham quoted the pope\u2019s call to \u201clook together how to be a missionary church, building bridges, dialogue, always open to receiving with open arms for everyone, like this square, open to all, to all who need our charity, our presence, dialogue, love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day of his election, Pope Leo sent a message to Rabbi Noam Marans, director of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee, pledging \u201cto continue and strengthen the church\u2019s dialogue and cooperation with the Jewish people in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council\u2019s declaration \u2018Nostra Aetate<\/a>.’ \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The landmark conciliar document, which marks its 60th anniversary this year, affirmed the church\u2019s spiritual kinship with the Jewish people while denouncing all forms of antisemitism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The A.J.C. posted the pope\u2019s message to its X account 13 May, with Rabbi Marans telling the Jewish Telegraphic Agency shortly after the pope\u2019s election that the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost\u2019s U.S. origins boded well for Catholic-Jewish relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore than anywhere in the world, the relationship between Catholics and Jews has flourished and set a gold standard in the United States,\u201d said Rabbi Marans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam Gregerman, professor and co-director of St. Joseph\u2019s Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations, also told OSV News the Chicago-born pope\u2019s U.S. origins also signaled promise for deepening Jewish-Christian bonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe locus of many of the major improvements in Jewish-Christian relations since the Second Vatican Council have taken place in the U.S., owing above all to the size of these communities and the regular, fruitful interactions between them. It is thus encouraging to see the elevation of an American as pope,\u201d said Gregerman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that Pope Leo\u2019s public affirmation of his commitment to interreligious relations is \u201ca welcome indication of the importance of this issue to him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, \u201cGiven his roots in a diverse American society, I know many Jews are excited about his selection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an 8 May message, the World Jewish Congress congratulated the new pope, saying its relationship with the Holy See \u201cspans decades,\u201d and is \u201cgrounded in a deep, ongoing commitment to interfaith dialogue\u201d focused on countering antisemitism, defending religious freedom and fostering the welfare of Jewish and Catholic communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe W.J.C. looks forward to continuing and deepening this essential dialogue under the leadership of Pope Leo XIV,\u201d said the organization. \u201cAt a time of global crisis, the importance of this relationship is only heightened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbi Marans highlighted Pope Leo\u2019s previous study at Chicago\u2019s Catholic Theological Union under now-retired Servite Father John T. Pawlikowski, co-founder and director of the school\u2019s Catholic-Jewish studies program, and a four-term board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That training will also benefit Muslim-Catholic relations, said Mehnaz Afridi, professor of religious studies at Manhattan University and director of the school\u2019s Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afridi, who knows several of the pope\u2019s former instructors and classmates at Catholic Theological Union, said the former Father Robert Prevost\u2019s education at that institution and Villanova University is a significant factor in assessing his interreligious lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a scholar, but also as a Muslim, we do so much Muslim-Catholic, Muslim-Christian dialogue with Villanova and C.T.U.,\u201d Afridi told OSV News. \u201cIt\u2019s really important that someone comes from that kind of tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also stressed the pope\u2019s Augustinian roots as key for interreligious dialogue, since Augustinian thought is \u201creally about the centrality of God,\u201d and \u201cthe importance of the interior experience and inquiry of God,\u201d which \u201cMuslims also believe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afridi cited the pope\u2019s devotion to Mary \u2014 evident in his first speech, which concluded with the Ave Maria, and his visit to a Marian shrine \u2014 as another point of connection between the Catholic and Muslim faith traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe Muslims have a whole chapter on Maryam (Mary) in the Quran,\u201d said Afridi, referencing Islam\u2019s central religious text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afridi said she was also struck by the number of times the pope has used the words \u201cdialogue\u201d and \u201cpeace\u201d in his early communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was really important,\u201d she said. \u201c(As) Muslims, we look for leaders of any faith right now, especially the Catholic faith, to spread the message of peace, and to understand there is suffering going on \u2026 in the Muslim world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added, \u201cWe have Sudan, we have Somalia, we have Gaza. There\u2019s this sort of understanding that all of these places are very terroristic, but there are very faithful and very good people living in these places.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, \u201ca lot of Catholics and Muslims live together all over the world, especially in Africa,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afridi said she is \u201cpretty confident\u201d that the \u201cnew understanding of dialogue\u201d among faiths forged under Pope Francis will continue with Pope Leo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new pope\u2019s choice of name \u2014 honoring Pope Leo XIII, dubbed the \u201cfather of Catholic social teaching\u201d \u2014 is not lost on Muslims either, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the Muslim world, naming \u2026 means something. You\u2019re supposed to kind of embody the name as you move on in terms of your own ministry,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope Leo\u2019s Chicago origins have a specific significance for Muslims as well, since that city and Detroit were home to the Ahmadiyya Muslim movement \u2014 a revival in Islam that emphasized peace and the sanctity of life \u2014 in the U.S., said Afridi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChicago has a lot of rootedness in the Muslim faith; the early kind of movements in Islam came from there,\u201d she said. \u201cSo he\u2019s actually born in this historical city for a lot of Muslims in America, and that\u2019s something very interesting to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb \u2014 with whom Pope Francis met during a 2019 apostolic journey to the United Arab Emirates, and with whom he signed a \u201cDocument on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together\u201d \u2014 also extended his congratulations to Pope Leo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe look forward to continuing our collaboration with His Holiness in strengthening interfaith dialogue and promoting the values of human fraternity, in pursuit of global peace, coexistence, and a better future for all humanity,\u201d the Cairo-based grand imam wrote on his X account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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