As a rabbi and as the son of a Christian mother, I value interreligious encounters that respect each heritage’s integrity while forging new paths forward.

"Nostra Aetate" uprooted previous church teachings and charted a new course for the relationship between Jews and Catholics in a bold, unequivocal, radical way, Rabbi Daniel F. Polish said.

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Nostra Aetate (In Our Time) is the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions. Whenever we are confronted with something new and strange, our ...

Issued by Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965, Nostra Aetate would enable greater understanding and shared values between the Catholic Church and Judaism, as well as other non-Christian religions.

Nostra Aetate was one of the most hotly-debated documents to emerge from Vatican II. Inspired by a 1960 conversation between the French Jewish historian Jules Isaac and Pope John XXIII, it was ...

VATICAN CITY — Nostra Aetate (In Our Time) is the shortest of the Second Vatican Council's 16 documents, but it has had long-lasting repercussions — particularly in the area of Catholic-Jewish ...

To mark the golden anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Vatican issued a “reflection” on what has happened theologically over the past half-century.

But in 1965, Nostra Aetate was finally issued. Rabbi David Rosen, interreligious affairs director for the American Jewish Committee, says it was truly a revolutionary document.

"Nostra Aetate," he said, was not "an isolated meteorite that fell from heaven," but it flowed from the other teachings of the council, particularly the council's reflections on the mystery of the ...

'Nostra Aetate' opened up Catholic, Jewish relations 50 years ago Last month marked the 50th anniversary of the issuance of the most radical document by the Second Vatican Council, opening up ...

Nostra Aetate accorded fundamental respect to Judaism, not only as the mother religion of Christianity, but also as an ongoing religious faith. By Michael Berenbaum Published October 20, 2005 ...