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60 Years of Nostra Aetate

The Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue organized a celebratory event to mark the 60th anniversary of the promulgation of Nostra Aetate. This event took place on October 28, 2025, in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. The following morning, Wednesday, October 29, Pope Leo XIV dedicated the General Audience to this significant anniversary and reflected on the positive outcomes resulting from the reception of Nostra Aetat

Dec 1

Remembering Pope Francis in the context of Nostra Aetate

Speech delivered at DARING PEACE - International meeting for Peace, organised by SANT'EGIDIO. Rome, October 26th - 28th, 2025. On these days, the sixtieth anniversary of the promulgation of the conciliar document Nostra Aetate by Pope Paul VI, which had initially been commissioned by Pope John XXIII, is celebrated. Its Chapter IV marked a turning point in the 2,000 years of Jewish-Christian relations, on the one hand, and was the Catholic response to the Shoah , on the other

Dec 1

Yom Kippur 5786

When the Jerusalem Temple still stood, the rituals to be performed on Yom Kippur had two central figures and two specific places.

Sep 28

Rosh Hashanah 5786

Rosh Hashanah, whose literal translation from Hebrew is the "head" or "beginning" of a new year, is connected to b’reshit, "in the beginning," the first word in the Hebrew Bible that begins the story of Creation. Rosh and Reshit have the same Hebrew consonantal root (reish-alef-shin).

Sep 21