Catholic-Jewish Relations. When Nostra Aetate was promulgated by Blessed Paul VI on Oct. 28, 1965, it marked the first time bishops had explicitly said that the Church “rejects nothing that is ...

When Pope John XXIII convened Vatican Council II, he initiated the process that led to Nostra Aetate, which 40 years ago this year essentially dropped the charge that Jews were responsible for the ...

Pope Francis marked the Oct. 28 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council’s declaration on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions, by stressing how the ...

Nostra Aetate changed the Church from as a predatory bully, ... A TAPESTRY with the image of Pope John XXIII hangs on the facade of St. Peter’s facade during a beatification ceremony in 2000.

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.

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 ...

What was originally proposed by St. John XXIII as a statement related to Jews eventually evolved to encompass non-Christian religions and ended ... "Nostra Aetate," is one of the 16 documents that ...

The year 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of Nostra Aetate, a remarkable document produced by the Second Vatican Council in 1965, during the papacy of Pope John XXIII.

Pope John XXIII and John Paul II helped change nearly 2,000 years of Catholic antagonism toward Jews with their personal and professional words and deeds.

Cardinal Loris Capovilla, St. John XXIII’s personal secretary, died May 26 at the age of 100. He had been the closest collaborator of the sainted “Good Pope John” for ten years.

Paul VI certainly followed in St. John XXIII's footsteps in publishing the document, ... As part of the celebration surrounding the 50th anniversary of Nostra aetate, ...

(RNS) The Vatican's new document on Jewish-Christian relations harks back to one published 50 years ago, which set the stage for increasingly warmer relations between the church and the Jewish people.