I wondered how recent changes in the Catholic Church in Britain might impact on relations with Jews here. John Allen has been wondering about changes in the wider Catholic Church, and provides a thoughtful summary in Deep forces at work in Catholic-Jewish dialogue, based on an address he gave to the ADL.

For one thing, the realities of 9/11, Regensburg, the bombings in London and Madrid, and a host of other factors have caused Islam, at least to some extent, to supplant Judaism as the top inter-faith priority of the Catholic church. Moreover, the passage of time means that the acute personal sensitivity to the Holocaust which inspired the pioneers in Jewish/Catholic relations is fading. Bishops and theologians from the global South, who will be increasingly consequential, often don't feel the same sense of historical obligation.

He writes: “I then teased out some "good news" and "bad news" for Catholic/Jewish relations” and it is worth reading the whole article.