The Catholic Church and Globalization. Catholic-Jewish Relations sińce Vatican II: Approaching the 40th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate

From introduction: "One of the most important achievements of the 20lh century theology is the conviction that every religion is a path toward salvation for its followers. This conviction is calłed “religious pluralism”. What seems obvious today, was for centuries considered to be a heresy or a wrong way of thinking - and was usually violently opposed. One of the reasons for this new way of looking at one’s own religious tradition is the process of globalization. Also the Catholic Church embarked on the path of pluralism, and a concrete example of this new way of perceiving her own position in the mosaic of the world’s religions is the declaration issued during Vatican Council II in 1965."(...