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.

Though today's university students were not even born when Nostra Aetate, the Vatican Council statement on interreligious relations, was promulgated 50 years ago, they are affected by its contents.

Wednesday Oct. 28 marks the 50th anniversary of "Nostra Aetate," a landmark document that ushered in a new era in interreligious relations, especially between Jews and Christians. America followed ...

>>> ALSO, KIM LAWTON REPORTS ON THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF NOSTRA AETATE, THE VATICAN DOCUMENT THAT DRAMATICALLY CHANGED INTERFAITH RELATIONS, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN CATHOLICS AND JEWS.

Nostra Aetate teaches: 1) Jews were not collectively responsible for the death of Jesus – at any time in the past, present, or future; 2) anti-Semitism was a sin against God; and 3) the Jewish ...

Nostra Aetate changed the Church from as a predatory bully, to a world faith ready to discourse with other world faiths. A TAPESTRY with the image of Pope John XXIII hangs on the facade of St ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nostra Aetate (In Our Age) was promulgated by the Second Vatican Council on October 28, 1965 and this year’s fiftieth anniversary has witnessed many conferences devoted to celebrating it. Although its ...

We still have a long way to go in overcoming the often-lethal prejudice of the past. Nostra Aetate can in some ways be compared to the U.S. Constitution that was adopted 228 years ago in Philadelphia.

Nostra Aetate has been the inspiration for 50 years of work by Christians and Jews. The Catholic-Jewish leadership conversation has matured.