Cardinal Dolan: Catholics, Jews find common concerns in dialogue
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York speaks May 20 during “Nostra Aetate: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Catholic Church’s Dialogue with Jews and Muslims,” a three-day symposium of scholars at The Catholic University of America in Washington. (CNS photo/Ed Pfueller, Catholic University of America)
Posted in National News, on May 22nd, 2015
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Through dialogue, Catholics and Jews can find common cause in the concerns that vex leaders of both religions, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said May 20 during a forum on the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council document “Nostra Aetate.”
Thanks to “Nostra Aetate,” “Jewish-Catholic friendship has never been stronger,” Cardinal Dolan said in his address, “The Catholic Church’s National Dialogue With Jews Since ‘Nostra Aetate.’” “The brave fathers of the (Second Vatican) Council, aided by Jewish ‘periti’ (experts), could never have envisioned such success five decades ago.”
The success and friendship have been maintained, according to Cardinal Dolan, despite such issues that have cropped up in the half-century since.
Those issues include the Catholic Church’s old Good Friday prayer about conversion of Jews; the 1987 visit
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