But since Nostra Aetate was signed, all popes have taken seriously its charge to improve Jewish-Catholic relations. And in 1998 the Vatican apologized for its inaction during the Holocaust.

Nostra Aetate had its roots “in the shame and realizations of Christians after the Holocaust for what has been done to Jews,” according to Rev. Dennis McManus, ...

Nostra Aetate teaches us: 1) to focus on what all people have in common and what can draw us together; 2) that every person has a spark of divinity within them; and 3) to earnestly seek peace.

On this day in 1965, the Vatican II’s “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions,” also known as “Nostra Aetate,” was promulgated by the council—despite ...

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.

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 accorded fundamental respect to Judaism, not only as the mother religion of Christianity, but also as an ongoing religious faith. Skip to content ADVERTISE ...

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The final document, Nostra Aetate, is the shortest of all the documents of Vatican II, and it is also the clearest repudiation of prior Catholic belief and practice, an instance of acute, and ...