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On 28 October 1965, the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration Nostra Aetate “on the relation of the Church with non-Christian religions” opened a new chapter in the history of relations among Catholics, Jews, and believers of other faiths and spiritual traditions. Far more than a mere text, it marked a profound change in the Church’s understanding and expression of her relationship with followers of other religions. In that Declaration, the Church explicitly affirmed that she “rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions,” inviting the faithful to regard with esteem and respect “the manner of life and conduct, the precepts and doctrines.”[1] Written amid the creative and fraternal vitality of the Council, it remains highly relevant in a world marked, on the one hand, by widespread attitudes of closed-mindedness and, on the other, by a search for a peaceful coexistence within a universal citizenship founded on fraternity and mutual recognition.
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