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Video of Cardinal O'Malley's May 10, 2006 address to the Jewish community of Greater Boston.

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The Catholic Church and the Jewish People: Recent Reflections from Rome

Edited by Philip A. Cunningham, Norbert J. Hofmann, S.D.B., and Joseph Sievers.
Published by Fordham University Press, November, 2007.

Prepared to mark the fortieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate, this new book provides a convenient snapshot of the relationship between Catholics and Jews as it has unfolded in official encounters. This collection of essays originated as a lecture series at the Pontifical Gregorian Univeristy in Rome that was organized by two of the volume's co-editors, Nobert Hofmann, Secretary of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, and Joseph Sievers, Director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies at the Gregorian. The third co-editor, Philip Cunningham, oversaw the translations and edited the lectures for an English readership. Contributors to the book include Vatican leaders, prominent rabbis and diplomats, and scholars of Christian-Jewish relations. The articles consider the long-term and short-term histories of relations between the two peoples, explore various facets of a Catholic theology of Judaism, and provide for the first time an up-to-date compendium of the statements from an ongoing dialogue between the Vatican and the Israeli Rabbinate. Areas of agreement and subjects that cause tensions are both discussed. The collection is recommended for clergy, educators, and anyone concerned about the new and evolving rapprochement between Jews and Catholics.

Highlights of the papacy of John Paul II concerning Catholic-Jewish Relations

Resources for Teaching and Preaching the Passion

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