The Pope in America: Commentary from Rabbi Signer, Others
There has been, of course, an avalanche of commentary
concerning Pope Benedict’s visit to the The always interesting “On Faith” website – a project of the Washington Post and Newsweek – has a rich array of commentary on the papal visit. Today they feature a great post from Rabbi Michael Signer, co-chair of the Commission on Interreligious Affairs of Reform Judaism, analyzing the importance of the Pope’s visit for Jewish-Catholic relations.
Among those commentating on the New York Times' special site is Rabbi James Rudin, Senior Interreligous Adviser to the American Jewish Committee. I have also found the comments by blogger Amy Welborn to be particularly interesting.
And for the post-modernists among you, the most insightful coverage of the coverage of the Pope’s visit I have read is at Get Religion.org (a terrific site, which takes its name from CNN pundit William Schneider’s observation that “the press…just doesn’t get religion”).