Examining Nostra Aetate After 40 Years: Catholic-Jewish Relations in Our Time

On October 28, 1965, the Catholic bishops of the world voted to approve the shortest and perhaps most controversial document of Vatican II, Nostra Aetate, which addresses the relationship of the Catholic Church to non-Christians. Significantly, it signaled to the Jewish people and to the world that the Catholic Church was rethinking its attitudes, teachings and practices regarding Jews. More than 40 years later, editor Anthony J. Cernera, Ph.D., former president of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, presents a volume of essays describing the past, present and future of the Nostra Aetate story. It calls attention to the pioneers and pivotal events that have paved the way to where we are now and what needs to be done as we forge ahead and make Nostra Aetate into a lasting reality.https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/shupress_bks/1014/thumbnail.jp