LAWTON: Nostra Aetate is Latin for “In Our Time.” The declaration was approved in 1965 in the Second Vatican Council where bishops were meeting to make a host of changes to Catholic teachings ...

Pope Paul VI in 1963 (photo credit: VATICAN CITY) This year marks the 55th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, Latin for ... get the old one back on track. His teachings most often emphasized the ...

But who says teachings can’t be changed? Nostra Aetate did just that! It specifically contradicted the common teaching at the time about the Jews having killed Jesus. In fact, the gospel of ...

The fruit of Nostra Aetate, he said, is to take away the focus from “beliefs and doctrine that always ... who “never made conversion her main plan” but “she served, and hats off to her.” ...

These teachings throughout centuries have created an environment which led to the Inquisition, Pogroms and Ghettos. What was the genesis of the profound change created by Nostra Aetate?

a document titled ‘Nostra Aetate’ (‘In Our Time’). “To mark that document’s 50th anniversary, in 2015 Saint Joseph’s University commissioned new artwork to reflect Catholic teaching ...

The second negative voice came mostly from some Latin American, Italian and Spanish bishops.This objection argued that Nostra Aetate’s principal tenets were against the ordinary teaching ...

It's called Nostra ... church teaching about the Jews. There was much obstruction — some bishops even handed out anti-Jewish leaflets in St. Peter's Square. But in 1965, Nostra Aetate was ...

As the first pope to enter the priesthood after Nostra Aetate’s promulgation, Francis applied the document’s teachings in his exemplary relations with Jews while serving as archbishop of ...

"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.

One way to understand Nostra Aetate’s teaching is to adopt the following rule of thumb: A person is most often right in what he affirms and wrong in what he denies. All people are created in the ...

It goes on to affirm the common roots of Christianity and Judaism and marks the 50th anniversary of “Nostra Aetate,” the ... of the Gospels, a “teaching of contempt,” had provided an ...