The conciliar rapprochement with the Synagogue is accelerating.
On the day of his election in May 2025, Leo XIV sent a letter to the American Jewish Committee vowing to continue to “strengthen the Church’s dialogue and cooperation with the Jewish people.”
In June 2026, he named ultra-Zionist Montse Alavado of EWTN head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication.
Last month, on July 20, the Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBAA) elected Amy-Jill Levine as its president for the next year during its general meeting in Baltimore. News of her promotion was shared earlier this week.
Levine is a prolific Jewish scholar who currently holds the Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. Although she is a member of the Orthodox Jewish Congregation Sherith Israel in Nashville, she is a self-described “Yankee Jewish feminist” who considers herself an “unorthodox” member.
While originally founded exclusively for U.S. Catholic biblical scholars in 1936, the CBAA has evolved over time, most especially by embracing Vatican II’s false ecumenical teachings. According to dissident outlet National Catholic Reporter, the CBAA began with 50 founding members and has grown to more than 1,070 members.
X user The Catholic State has documented how the organization ended its confessional requirement in the 1960s, paving the way for a Protestant president in 1985 and now its first Jewish president. The group also has non-Catholic and Jewish members.
In a video, The Catholic State explains how Levine has publicly expressed her desire to “remove anything anti-Judaic from the Catholic lectionary.”
Other X users, such as FreeIrishman7, have also shared disturbing videos of Levine blaspheming the Bible and Catholic teaching about Christ.
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The National Catholic Reporter, on the other hand, has praised Levine’s election. Staff writer Camillo Barone noted that her goals include “confront[ing] anti-Jewish interpretations of Christian Scripture and help[ing] ensure that contemporary biblical research reaches priests, teachers and homilists.”
Levin has stated this elsewhere.
“Not only would it be good for Catholics to be better informed about Jewish practice and belief, it would be good for Jews to be informed about the New Testament, Catholicism, and especially the changes in Catholic teaching following Vatican II,” Levine told the Jerusalem Post this week.
Levine also told Religion News Services that “much of what I do is in reciprocation for the Church’s willingness to change its teaching.”
To Levine’s point, Leo himself commented during an address last autumn that Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate declaration describes “a new relationship between the Catholic Church and Judaism.”
It should come as no surprise to learn that in 2019 Levine became the first Jewish scholar to teach the New Testament at the Pontifical Institute in Rome. Francis also received her in official audiences three times during his term.
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Levine’s interest in the Catholic Church reportedly began when, as a little girl, she watched the funeral of John XXIII on television. Levine recounted that he was “a friend of the Jews.”
In 2017, Levine wrote an article for the Australian Broadcasting Company entitled “Not Good to be Alone: Rethinking the Bible and Homosexuality.” In the article, she manufactured opposition between the moral law and love of neighbor, claiming the latter has a “quantitative edge over passages possibly concerned with same-sex relations,” after which she lamented “this love means we cannot demonize people.” In other words, unnatural vice is to be tolerated, indeed normalized within society.
On the subject of unnatural vice, Levine appeared on a 2024 panel with the notorious pro-gender ideology Jesuit James Martin. Francis lent his backing for the event by telling attendees “I will be spiritually … with all of you.”
In a now-deleted video, Levine delivered a lecture in 2016 at Vanderbilt University Divinity School entitled “The Carpenter, Gender, and Sexuality: The Use and Abuse of the Gospels in Politics and Piety.”
Biblical Studies Online praised the speech as showing how the Bible is misused “as a weapon” to condemn “homosexuality and abortion.”
