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Pope Leo XIV meets American Jewish Committee, warns prejudice must not rise

The 22 October 2026 audience referenced the 60th anniversary of Nostra aetate and cited a study that recorded 20 Jews killed in 2025.

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Pope Leo XIV and leaders of the American Jewish Committee smile during their audience at the Vatican Oct. 22, 2026. During the encounter, Pope Leo emphasized the Church's commitment to fostering friendship between the two faiths and to rejecting all forms of ethnic and religious discrimination. (OSV News photo/Mario Tomassetti, Vatican Media)

What this story says

  • Pope Leo XIV met the American Jewish Committee on 22 October 2026 at the Vatican.
  • He said, “Differences of opinion, however profound, must never give rise to prejudice and hostility.”
  • The Pope referenced the 60th anniversary of the Vatican II declaration Nostra aetate.
  • A Tel Aviv University study reported 20 Jews were murdered in four attacks in 2025, the highest in three decades.

Who covered it

Left 0%(0)Centre 17%(1)Right 83%(5)

Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .

Trust

76/100

Craft

87/100

Hype

12/100

6 sources · methodology

Thin on the left so far

None of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

On Thursday, 22 October 2026, Pope Leo XIV received a delegation from the American Jewish Committee at the Vatican. During the audience he highlighted the shared spiritual heritage of Catholics and Jews and urged cooperation to defend human dignity, serve the poor, protect religious freedom and promote justice and peace.

He warned that “differences of opinion, however profound, must never give rise to prejudice and hostility,” recalling the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Nostra aetate declaration and reaffirming the Church’s rejection of antisemitism. A study released by Tel Aviv University later that year said 20 Jews were killed in four separate attacks in 2025, the highest number in more than three decades.

““Differences of opinion, however profound, must never give rise to prejudice and hostility.””

— Pope Leo XIV

20

Jews murdered in 2025

Highest number in three decades, according to a Tel Aviv University study

What was omitted

None of the right‑rated reports, whether the full Vatican News article or the digests, mention the Tel Aviv University study that recorded 20 Jews killed in 2025.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 3 times, most recently on 23 Oct 2026, 09:00, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated left has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Centre

1 rated outlet

  • Catholic Review led with the headline “Meeting US Jewish leaders, pope warns differences must not fuel prejudice.” Its full report detailed the Pope’s call to reject all forms of ethnic and religious discrimination, the context of recent attacks on Christians, and the AJC director’s comment that the delegation was “deeply moved.” The article quoted the Pope’s warning verbatim and highlighted the reference to the feast day of St John Paul II and the 60th anniversary of Nostra aetate.

Right

5 rated outlets

  • Vatican News, the sole full‑text right‑rated outlet, focused on the Pope’s invitation to “reject together all forms of hatred,” repeating his call to defend human dignity and protect religious freedom. It reproduced the same warning about prejudice and noted the Nostra aetate anniversary. The four right‑leaning digests (Jewish Insider, Our Sunday Visitor, Jewish News Syndicate, Cleveland Jewish News) each reported that the Pope pledged to combat antisemitism and urged cooperation between the two faiths, echoing the shared‑heritage language but without additional detail.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Pope Leo XIV meets American Jewish Committee, warns prejudice must not…?
Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 17% are rated centre, 83% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Pope Leo XIV meets American Jewish Committee, warns prejudice must not… left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Pope Leo XIV meets American Jewish Committee, warns prejudice must not… biased?
Pope Leo XIV meets American Jewish Committee, warns prejudice must not rise is one event reported by 6 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Pope Leo XIV meets American Jewish Committee, warns prejudice must not…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Pope Leo XIV meets American Jewish Committee, warns prejudice must not…?
6 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Pope Leo XIV say about prejudice?
He said, “Differences of opinion, however profound, must never give rise to prejudice and hostility,” stressing that even deep disagreements should not lead to discrimination or hatred.
Which study was cited about antisemitic attacks?
A study published by Tel Aviv University reported that 20 Jews were murdered in four separate attacks in 2025, the highest number of victims in more than three decades.
When did the meeting between the Pope and the American Jewish Committee take place?
The audience occurred on Thursday, 22 October 2026, at the Vatican, and was timed to coincide with the feast day of St John Paul II and the 60th anniversary of the Nostra aetate declaration.

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