The journey to Nostra Aetate. During the preparations for the Council, Pope John XXIII expressed a strong desire that the Council craft a strong statement about the Church’s relationship to Judaism.

He is, after all, the leader of a church that has transformed its relationship with Jews since 1965 with Nostra Aetate and which has seen historic moments in every papacy including John Paul II ...

In 1965 Vatican II yielded “Nostra Aetate,” which repudiated antisemitism. That same year, Pope John XXIII, who had died in 1963, was quoted by the Catholic Herald as having said that the Church is ...

The Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostra Aetate, on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions, was solemnly approved on Oct. 28, 1965, along with several other Council ...

Nostra aetate was one of the seven last documents of the most significant council of the Catholic Church in the last century, which spanned three years (1962-1965) and two popes (John XXIII and ...

Scholars have documented a brief but pivotal June 13, 1960, meeting between Isaac and St. John XXIII as the major catalyst behind "Nostra Aetate." Soon after, the Secretariat for Promoting Christian ...

It was June 13, 1960, when a distinguished French Jewish historian, intellectual and educator named Jules Isaac met St. John XXIII in a Vatican audience.

He gave the background of what he called "the original 'Nostra Aetate' moment: a 1960 meeting between French Jewish historian Jules Isaac and St. John XXIII during which Isaac hoped Vatican II ...

NEWARK, N.J. (CNS) — When asked his hopes for the Vatican’s summit on clergy sex abuse, “the answer for me is unmistakable,” Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark said. “What the church ...

Canadian theologian Gregory Baum, 94, author of the first draft of the Second Vatican Council’s “Nostra Aetate,” died Oct. 18 in a Montreal hospital.

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.