BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND ROME

Between Jerusalem and Rome Reflections on 50 Years of Nostra Aetate Preamble In the biblical account of creation, God fashions a single human being as the progenitor of all humanity. Thus, the Bible’s unmistakable message is that all human beings are members of a single family. And after the deluge of Noah, this message is…

Orthodox Rabbinic Statement on Christianity

  December 3, 2015 To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven: Toward a Partnership between Jews and Christians After nearly two millennia of mutual hostility and alienation, we Orthodox Rabbis who lead communities, institutions and seminaries in Israel, the United States and Europe recognize the historic opportunity now before us. We seek to…

AN ADDRESS TO THE CHURCHES SEELISBERG (Switzerland), 1947

The following statement, produced by Christian participants at an “Emergency Conference on Anti-Semitism,” held in Seelisberg, Switzerland from July 30 – August 5, 1947. This conference also led to the formation of the International Council of Christians and Jews. Its statement was one of the first statements following World War II in which Christians, with…

We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah

  Letter from the Pope To My Venerable Brother Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy On numerous occasions during my Pontificate I have recalled with a sense of deep sorrow the sufferings of the Jewish people during the Second World War. The crime which has become known as the Shoah remains an indelible stain on the history…

Jews and Judaism in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF GERMAN CATHOLICS | 30.01.1996 Extracts from a statement by the Central Committee of German Catholics, published January 29, 1996 “A vocal interruption” (Ein Zwischenruf) “The new ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church’ (CCC) may distinguish itself from its predecessors in content and form, in intention and by the people it addresses. But it too…