Pope Benedict XVI, Lord Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, and Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, are pictured in 2011 at the Vatican. The Catholic Church’s relationship to Judaism as taught by the Second Vatican Council and the interpretations and developments of that teaching by subsequent popes “are binding on a Catholic,” Cardinal Koch said. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via Reuters) (May 17, 2012) See KOCH-JUDAISM May 17, 2012.