[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, it wasn't the Pope who brought this up. The "freaking hack" in question was Cardinal Curt Koch, the head of the "Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews," on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Nosta Aetate.

For what is essentially a "diplomatic" document, it actually has a surprising amount of evangelical content, e.g.:

Confessing the universal and therefore also exclusive mediation of salvation through Jesus Christ belongs to the core of Christian faith. . . . [T]he Church and Judaism cannot be represented as "two parallel ways to salvation."

It literally says Judaism is not a parallel way to salvation. That's pretty on-your-nose for a product of the Vatican document-factory.

However I share your frustration with the sheer voluminous bafflegab.

[Arthur McGowan]

The basic delusion, which has reigned in the Catholic Church for fifty years, is that what is most important is meetings between LEADERS—Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist CLERGY flying all over the world, having meetings, and issuing documents.

Robert Spencer was barred from speaking at a Catholic church by the bishop of Manchester, N.H., on the grounds that it would damage “interfaith dialogue.”

Meanwhile, INDIVIDUAL Lutherans, Anglicans, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus become Catholics—which is the ONLY “interfaith dialogue” that means ANYTHING.

[piusv]

Evangelii Gaudium #247: We hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has never been revoked.

Yep, it's Francis.