Jewish-Catholic relations ‘better than ever’ — WJC

28 October 2015, 6:01 pm

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Marking the 50-year anniversary of the landmark declaration by which the Vatican ended centuries of officially condoned anti-Semitism and urged bridge-building with all other faiths, the World Jewish Congress says Jewish-Catholic relations are “better than ever.”

“What has happened since ‘Nostra Aetate’ is nothing short of a miracle,” Ronald Lauder, the president of the WJC, says at a press conference in Rome, adding that 150 Jewish leaders had attended the papal audience.

“Relations between Catholics and Jews on many levels, not just the highest, are now better than ever.”

The document, adopted by cardinals and bishops around the world, also reached out to Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims.

— AFP contributed