![]() ![]() “Let us pray also for the faithless Jews: that almighty God may remove the veil from their hearts so that they too may acknowledge Jesus Christ our Lord.” “True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ still, what happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today.”īefore 1965, Catholics prayed for Jews in this way: ![]() Nostra Aetate reversed this teaching, saying: “From enemies and strangers, we have become friends,” he said.īefore 1965, the Catholic Church considered the Jewish people responsible for the death of Jesus. ![]() “A real transformation has taken place in these 50 years in the relationship between Christians and Jews,” the Pope said in a speech in Rome on Wednesday. Issued on October 28, 1965, the historic document outlines the Catholic Church’s relationship with non-Christian religions, specifically Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. Nostra Aetate (Latin for “In Our Times”) was written during he Second Vatican Council, a landmark meeting of Catholic clergy that many theologians credit with updating church teachings. Just a few days after ending a synod that flirted with the Catholic Church changing language and attitudes toward divorced people and gays and lesbians, Pope Francis celebrated 50 years of a document that significantly altered the language and attitudes of the church toward Jews. ![]()
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