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 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.

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, ...

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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 ...

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.

Abstract. Nostra Aetate (In Our Age) was promulgated by the Second Vatican Council on October 28, 1965 and this year’s fiftieth anniversary has witnessed many conferences devoted to celebrating ...

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 ...

But in 1965, Nostra Aetate was finally issued. Rabbi David Rosen, interreligious affairs director for the American Jewish Committee, says it was truly a revolutionary document.

A senior theologian warned that Nigeria’s “desensitisation” to violence was leading to the dangerous normalisation of mass ...

Nostra Aetate, translated as "in our time,” may well have been the most preeminent Vatican determination in modernity as it nullified the long standing evil contention that Jews were to be ...

Further, Nostra Aetate speaks directly to the anti-Jewish diatribes from the Gospel of John and Gospel of Luke, which are commonly read on Good Friday and Easter about Jesus’ death and ...