Hopes rise for reconciliation after centuries of bitterness - World - Times Online

Hopes rise for reconciliation after centuries of bitterness - World - Times Online: "WHEN Theodore Herzl, the founding father of Zionism, met Pope Pius X in 1904 and asked him to support Jewish aspirations for a homeland in Israel, the pontiff is said to have replied: “The Jews have not recognised our Lord, therefore we cannot recognise the Jewish people.”"