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 the ...

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. Peter’s ...

My rabbinic colleague, David Saperstein, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, issued a “glass half full” report earlier this month, noting that “… over the last several ...

Last month during his apostolic trip to the United States, Pope Francis made an unscheduled visit to bless a statue in Philadelphia. The statue is “Synagoga and Ecclesia” depicting female figures ...

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote: “The life of the law is not logic but experience.” So it is too for the unfolding of Catholic-Jewish relations in the 50 years since Nostra ...

One of the sweetest Catholic ladies I ever knew was once confronted with a particularly ugly act of anti-Catholicism. She was more confused than angry at the bigotry and shook her head, saying, “I don ...

How the document has transformed Jewish-Catholic relations. The transformation of Catholic-Jewish relations over the past 50 years has been so successful that few today — neither Catholics nor Jews — ...

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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 ...

"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. The manner ...

(RNS) My rabbinic colleague, David Saperstein, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, issued a “glass half full” report earlier this month, noting that “… over the last ...