October 24, 2005

Vol. 193 No. 12Whole No. 4708

Editorials

In Our Time

On October 28, 1965, during the fourth and last session of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), Pope Paul VI formally promulgated the council’s Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-

Articles

Books and Persons

John F. Kavanaugh

I have often wondered about the long-range value of writing, whether books or articles.

The Genesis of Nostra Aetate

Thomas Stransky

Of the Second Vatican Council’s 16 promulgated statements, a total of over 100,000 words, by far the shortest is the “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions,” also kno

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Yona Metzger

A well-known Jewish parable tells the story of a young man who was hiking on a journey.

The Spirit of the Declaration

Mona Siddiqui

The Catholic Church is unique in having a magisterium, a hierarchical structure through which declarations on teachings can come formally from “the center.” This, however, raises the question of wh

What Next?

Rabbi Leon Klenicki

The Latin words nostra aetate mean “in our time,” a fitting opening phrase for the declaration promulgated by the Second Vatican Council in 1965 that has truly transformed our time.

Progress in India

Michael Amaladoss

For the Catholic Church in India, Nostra Aetate came more as an encouragement than as a new beginning.

Relations With Muslims

John Borelli

The final volume of the History of Vatican II series (Orbis 1995-2005) presents Nostra Aetate as “the outcome of one of John XXIII’s original insights.” Ever since the idea for that declar