Friday, April 08, 2005

Same tailor?

The Pope meets the Rabbi of Rome.

Paul of bloghd's been making a meal of the fact that this Rabbi was mentioned in the Pope's will. Big deal.

The Rabbi was mentioned at the very end of a paragraph that refers favorably to all the cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, Catholic lay-people and non-Christian brothers in the world. At the tail end of that, one Jew gets a mention, and not even by name, but by his office.

In context, it looks tacked on, or like a courtesy mention.