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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The full name of the Philadelphia statue – “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time” – honors the 1965 Vatican II document, Nostra Aetate. (Nostra Aetate is Latin for “In our time.”) ...

Nostra Aetate proclaimed clearly and unambivalently that, while some Jews had sought the crucifixion of Jesus, he endured his death and “passion” of his own free will, and neither ancient nor ...

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 ...

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