Nostra aetate, or the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, is an official declaration of the Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It
Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time (2015), sculpture by Joshua Koffman at the Jesuit-run Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, commemorating Nostra aetate
John XXIII met with Jules Isaac in 1960, the author of Jésus et Israël. After the meeting, he directed the SECU to prepare a document on Catholic–Jewish relations for the Second Vatican Council.
Cardinal Augustin Bea oversaw the drafting of Nostra aetate by his periti as the President of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.
Seton Hall University, New Jersey in the United States, where Decretum de Iudaeis was drafted in 1961. Jewish convert and Vatican II peritus, John M. Oesterreicher, founded the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies here in 1953.
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the twenty-first and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It met in St.
Nostra aetate
…aetate (from Latin: "In our time"), or the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, is an official declaration of the Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It was promulgated on 28 October 1965 by Pope Paul VI. Its name comes from its incipit, the first few…
Council Fathers from various sui juris churches in St. Peter's Square
Before a papal Mass at the council in St. Peter's Basilica.
Council Fathers at the council.
Council Fathers in Vestments.