Jorge Bergoglio back in 2004, went to the museum exhibit, “Maimonides 800 Years”

Moses Maimonides 

aka Rabbeinu Moshe Ben Maimon 

or simply the Rambam

Flashback to 20 July 2004, the date Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (then archbishop of Buenos Aires), the late Adel Mohamed Made (then president of the Islamic Center), and Jorge Kirszenbaum (a lawyer and then president of DAIA) had an interreligous field trip to the Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta in Buenos Aires to see “Maimonides 800 Years: Meeting of Faith and Reason”.  North America had the twin exhibition at the Florida International University-North Campus.  The exhibit was a collaboration between the Center for Research and Promotion of Sephardic Culture (CIDiCSef) and the University of Cambridge.  The museum display was celebrating the 800th anniversary of the death of Maimonides.  The exhibit contained liturgical objects, paintings, a model of the world Maimonides traveled, excerpts from his works, video, and scholars comments on the Rambam.  There the three interreligous amigos were hosted by Mario Cohen who explained to his guests: what a genius Maimonides was and how the Rambam was a man of coexistence.  Cardinal Bergolgio praised Maimonides open attitude as well as his understanding those of other faiths and praised the exhibit for demonstrating this.  [CMJ's comment: What a bunch of malarkey!  Maimonides wanted to kill Catholics, thought Blacks were inferior, was in favor of child-molestations, believed in situational ethics, etc...] Unfortunately, Call Me Jorge... could not uncover any photos or videos from this day.  We wonder if the three had a spiritual hug which Francis is so fond of?  It would only be a little past 4 years later when Jorge Mario Bergoglio accepted the Maimonides Award for Inter-religious Dialogue in 2008. 

source: Zenit, El cardenal de Buenos Aires visita la exposición sobre Maimónides, hombre de diálogo


archived page of MAIMONIDES 800 AÑOS Rabi Moshé Ben Maimón, Rambám


More on Call Me Jorge... about Maimonides

Jorge Bergoglio and Dr. Mario Cohen at the 5th International Symposium on Sephardic Studies at the Maimonides University in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Blast from the Bergoglio past (2004)

Jorge Bergoglio, Jorge Kirszenbaum and Julio Toker

Stepping back in time to 2004 one can see Jorge Bergoglio already firmly in the Talmudic camp.  In the article, El Holocausto será estudiado en escuelas católicas, from La Capital published on 30 April 2004, one reads that Jorge agreed to make Holocaustry part of the education to be taught in the Catholic schools under his control.  When did Jorge pick up this love for all things Talmudic and his aversion to Our Lord's Crucifixion?  Are there any readers from Argentina who could help fill us in with pertinent information?  The Vatican long ago adopted Talmudism and yearly seeks its kosher stamp from the rabbis.  Will Francis take it to a new level after his recent groundbreaking trip of apostasy to Israel?

The Holocaust will be studied in Catholic schools

The Holocaust will be studied in Catholic schools in the diocese under the management of the Archbishop of Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, Catholic schools in Buenos Aires will have seminars on anti-discrimination, the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which would be provided by a specialist from the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations (DAIA). 

This was announced by the president of DAIA, Jorge Kirszenbaum, after holding a meeting with the cardinal in Buenos Aires at the headquarters of the Israeli entity, which operates in the reconstructed building Amia at 633 Pasteur.  

Kirszenbaum said, "we were discussing the possibility of making the Church, through schools that depend on it, the disseminator of a work by the middle of social studies of DAIA on topics such as anti-discrimination, and teaching about the Holocaust the Warsaw ghetto uprising," among other topics.  

The Jewish leader said that the aim of this initiative is to highlight, "everything is on the fight against repression and for human values."

Kirszenbaum, who emphasized that, "this visit not only confirms the excellent link," between the Catholic and Jewish communities also added that, "we have talked enough about the concern that the Church shares with us about the events of the trial for the bombing of AMIA and DAIA."

He noted further that, "both the Catholic Church and the Jewish community are absolutely concerned," about the high levels of unemployment, and that, "the idea is to see how we perform tasks in that senseto help mitigate the pain and suffering of our brothers." 

For more on this meeting which happened read La Nacion's article, Firmes coincidencias entre la Iglesia y la DAIA.