Podcasts about Nostra aetate

While writing my book the Islamic Mary, I came across various works on Christian-Muslim relations, in particular the groundbreaking Catholic document of Nostra Aetate which speaks about positive relations with Muslims. However, the document is silent on core issues of Muslim faith such as the Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad. This led me to the writings of Jordan Denari Duffner who addresses these issues in her recent dissertation. I speak with Jordan about her spiritual biography, scholarship and activism.

IMAGE CREDIT Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons - cc-by-sa-3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LINKS Vatican bio of Cardinal Kurt KOCH: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_koch_k.html         Kurt KOCH on FIU's Cardinals Database (by Salvador Miranda): https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2010.htm#Koch      Cardinal Kurt KOCH on Gcatholic.org: https://gcatholic.org/p/4021                         Cardinal Kurt KOCH on Catholic-Hierarchy.org: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkoch.html    Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity on Gcatholic.org: https://gcatholic.org/dioceses/romancuria/d16.htm  Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity on Catholic-Hierarchy.org: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dxpcu.html Basel Cathedral website discussing the canons: https://www.bistum-basel.ch/news/drei-neue-domherren-eingesetzt La Repubblica 1995 article on Bishop Vogel's resignation and son: https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1995/06/03/il-vescovo-si-dimette-aspetto-un.html  Nostra Aetate: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html 2012 Catholic News Service overview of Cardinal Koch's comments on conservative Catholics and Judaism (archived via Library of Congress Web Archives): https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20121205205921/http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1202023.htm    Thank you for listening, and thank my family and friends for putting up with the time investment and for helping me out as needed. As always, feel free to email the show at Popeularhistory@gmail.com  If you would like to financially support Popeular history, go to www.patreon.com/Popeular. If you don't have any money to spare but still want to give back, pray and tell others– prayers and listeners are worth more than gold!   TRANSCRIPT Welcome to Popeular History, a library of Catholic knowledge and insights.   Check out the show notes for sources, further reading, and a transcript.   Today we're discussing another current Cardinal of the Catholic Church, one of the 120 or so people who will choose the next Pope when the time comes.   Kurt KOCH was born on March 15, 1950, Emmenbrücke a town just north of the middle of Switzerland, in the Canton of Lucerne.   Cardinal Koch is the second Swiss-born Cardinal we've met after Cardinal Tscherrig, the Nuncio's Nuncio we met last summer. But at the time we had dozens of countries involved, because, well, nuncio's nuncio, and didn't get a chance to just talk Switzerland.   These days Switzerland is famous for their neutrality, staying out of pretty much every conflict they can avoid. Perhaps that's in part due to the fact that it used to be a battleground, especially in the rolling conflicts between the Popes in Italy and the Holy Roman Emperors in Germany. When the Reformation came, Switzerland was again divided in loyalty between largely Catholic southern Europe and largely Protestant northern Europe. One of the fruits of conflict, for better or for worse, is military skill, which is how the Swiss Guard that still protects the Vatican today came about. Fortunately, like I mentioned, the Swiss came to embrace neutrality, including in religion, with laws allowing for freedom of conscience–first just among Christian denominations and then more broadly. Keep this context  of conflict to resolution in the back of your mind as we go.    Kurt Koch studied Theology at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland, then went to Munich Germany to study more theology, getting a diploma in theology in 1975. He served as a research assistant at the University of Lucerne from ‘76 to ‘81, presumably while studying even More theology, and soon after he was ordained a priest for his home Diocese of Basel in 1982. This is actually the first time I've seen someone ordained apparently without any specific philosophy training, going pure theology isn't as normal as one might expect.   After a period of chaplaincy, his theology studies continued, and in 1987 he wound up with a doctorate in, you guessed it, theology. I expected he'd stop there, or perhaps get another doctorate, but apparently in Kurt's neck of the woods there's another step you can go beyond a simple doctorate, the Habilitation, which basically works out to full professorship. The most surprising thing about this to me is that this is the first time I'm realizing it, it's extremely possible- I would say likely- that he actually isn't our first Cardinal to achieve this level, I just didn't flag it before and my sources described it differently this time. Part of why I love doing this is it lets me learn something every day.   Anyways, after obtaining his habilitation, Father Koch became Professor of dogmatics, liturgy and ecumenical theology at the Theological Faculty of the University of Lucerne from 1989, a post he held until 1996. He was also simultaneously rector for a short time, though that was interrupted by a call. Normally this would be a tongue-in-cheek note about a white phone, but in this case the call was coming from the Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese of Basel, because it was actually their job to elect the next Bishop of Basel and they wanted to choose Father Koch.   Of course, much like my normal white phone joke, this isn't necessarily *exactly* how it went down, since for all I know maybe Father Koch *was* one of the Canons of Basel Cathedral and no phone was needed for the news. But either way, my point is that unlike the typical process for most dioceses, where the relevant nuncio and the relevant Dicastery work with the Pope to figure out new bishops, Basel uses the old Cathedral Chapter model, where there's a local election among the members of the Chapter.   The Cathedral Chapter might have been a little sheepish, because they had actually just elected a new Bishop of Basel, who had found himself under a lot of psychological pressure–being a bishop isn't easy–and had wound up going to an old friend for comfort. A female friend, who wound up pregnant. He resigned, got laicized, and married her. Hopefully he's a better traditional father than he was a spiritual one.   Bishop Koch received his episcopal consecration directly and personally from Pope John Paul II in the Vatican, possibly because everyone was wanting to do things right after the last kerfuffle, though I don't have any source claiming that, just a guess.   The University Of Lucerne made him an honorary professor on his way out the door, a nice gesture, presumably a sort of “you're welcome to come back by any time” kind of arrangement.   Bishop Koch got involved in the Swiss Bishop's conference, serving as their Vice-President for nine years, and as their President for three. Together that represents pretty much his entire time as a bishop in Switzerland, because in 2010 Bishop Koch was called up to the Vatican to head the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, of which he had been a member since 2002. To fit the dignity of his new office, he was promoted to Archbishop and then Cardinal.    Speaking of archbishops, today I learned Switzerland has no archbishops, all six dioceses are immediately subject to the Holy See, meaning if there's something that would normally involve an Archbishop, it goes to the Vatican. But enough about Switzerland, we're in Rome now.   Pope Benedict had Cardinal Koch jump in headfirst, heading a delegation to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew–the leader of the Orthodox,  the largest Christian Church outside of Catholicism, and co-presiding over a meeting of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church with his Orthodox counterpart. In December, Pope Benedict also added Koch to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.   What a difference a year makes, Koch had started the year as a simple bishop, now he was pretty much everywhere.   Cardinal Koch's big Christian unity gig also extends outside Christianity, as the head of that dicastery is also automatically the President of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. Sometimes the two overlap, like when he's talking with traditionalists who are to varying degrees reluctant to embrace Jews as their brothers. In those cases he points to Nostra Aetate, essentially the Catholic Church's foundational document on religious freedom, which explicitly decries antisemitism, and which Cardinal Koch has called “important for every Catholic”.   In addition to dozens of articles and papers, Cardinal Koch has written at least fifteen books.   Originally elevated as a Cardinal-Deacon, Cardinal Koch exercised his right to become a Cardinal-Priest after ten years of service as a Cardinal.   In addition to the roles we've already discussed, Cardinal Koch is currently a member of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith; the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the Dicastery for Bishops; and the Dicastery for Culture and Education.   A veteran of the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis, Kurt Cardinal KOCH is eligible to participate in future conclaves until he turns 80 in 2030.   Today's episode is part of Cardinal Numbers. Stay tuned to see if today's Cardinal gets selected for a deeper dive in the next round! Thank you for listening; God bless you all!

The Catholic cardinal Jorge Mario Bergolio ascended to the papacy in 2013. In honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, he chose as his papal name Francis. For a dozen years he was the head of the Catholic Church and a major figure in the moral and cultural life of the West. After a prolonged illness, Pope Francis died on April 21 of this year. There are over 1.4 billion Catholics in the world, and they play a significant role in the production of Western culture and Western opinion. The foundational structures of Europe are derivative of, or inseparably woven into, the history of the Catholic Church. And whether the pope strengthens or undermines the moral confidence of Western nations matters: it mattered during the papacy of John Paul II during the cold war; it mattered in the confrontation with jihadist terror during the papacy of Benedict XVI; and it cannot but be a factor in the horizons of Western civilization. This podcast focuses on a particular dimension of the late Pope Francis's legacy, namely, how he engaged the Jewish people, Israel, and the Middle East. To discuss the legacy of Pope Francis, the Church's engagement in the Middle East, and who might be the next Catholic pope, Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver sat down with Father Benedict Kiely. Kiely was born in London, ordained a Catholic priest in Canterbury, and has spent most of his ministry in the United States. In 2014, he founded Nasarean.org, a charity that supports persecuted Christians around the world, and especially in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. One of his aims is to see the church grow closer to its Middle Eastern roots, and that means, in some grand spiritual way, closer too to its Jewish roots. For Catholics, the question of the Church's attitude toward Zionism and Israel is not perhaps among the most pressing of ecclesiastical priorities. One would not expect it to weigh heavily on the Vatican's conclave in the election of the next pope. This conversation thus takes the perspective of an outsider. Moreover, there are very deep theological matters that will always divide the Catholic Church from the Jewish people. And some of those very deep theological matters also shape the way that Catholics tend to think about Zionism and the modern state of Israel. The Jewish people are animated by a belief in covenantal chosenness, and a sense of sacred obligation to uphold God's ways in their actions, in their families, and in their nation. That obligation is structured by tradition and law, and it is expressed nationally in the people of Israel, which, after a long hiatus in exile, again has a sovereign state in the land of its fathers. For Catholics, of course, the Church is the new Israel, and despite very welcome and laudable developments since the promulgation of Nostra Aetate in 1965, that is an unbridgeable theological chasm. Nonetheless, friendship between Christians and Jews is essential to revitalizing our shared civilization and passing it on to future generations. Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.

2025 marks 80 years since the liberation of concentration camps, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the end of World War II, and the signing of the UN Charter. It also commemorates 60 years since the signing of Nostra Aetate, which reshaped the Catholic Church's dialogue with non-Christian religions. Wow! Join us on today's edition of the Endtime Show as we explore the importance of these milestones along with many other ongoing prophetic fulfillments! --------------- 📱: It's never been easier to understand. Stream Only Source Network and access exclusive content: https://watch.osn.tv/browse 📚: Check out Jerusalem Prophecy College Online for less than $60 per course: https://jerusalemprophecycollege.com 🏧: America's Christian Credit Union: Make the switch from the BIG banks: https://www.endtime.com/switch ☕️: First Cup Coffee: Use code ENDTIME to get 10% off: https://www.firstcup.com 🥤: Ready Pantry: https://www.readypantry.com/endtime ⭐️ Birtch Gold: https://www.birchgold.com/endtime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sources: Mary director responds to backlash:  https://www.business-standard.com/entertainment/netflix-movie-mary-sparks-controversy-makers-defend-their-decision-nc-124121000584_1.html Christian replacement theology, Islamic tahrif:  https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1105&context=pretrib_arch https://www.al-islam.org/tags/tahrif Pope at Vatican nativity scene with Keffiyeh: https://www.timesofisrael.com/pope-francis-inaugurates-nativity-scene-in-vatican-showing-baby-jesus-on-keffiyeh/  “Palestine Crucified” poster:  https://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/palestine-crucified www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/05/25/palestinian-political-leadership-then-and-now/ Jesus was Judean:  https://www.bibleodyssey.org/map-gallery/herodian-kingdoms-map/ https://rsc.byu.edu/new-testament-history-culture-society/judea-roman-province-ad-6-66 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/08/07/how-old-was-jesus-when-he-died/7700029001/ Origins of the term Palestine:  https://www.hudson.org/node/44363 Jewish-Roman Wars:  https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=resources&s=war-dir&f=wars_romanjewish How Jewish identity developed:  The Hebrew Bible by Robert Alter  “Palestinian” Jews expelled by Arabs:  https://www.jns.org/a-will-to-survive-recalls-arab-ethnic-cleansing-of-jerusalems-jews/ Jews persecuted for supposedly killing Jesus:  https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/deicide Ex-CEO of Wikipedia comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gsj0EEE3I No, the Jews didn't kill Jesus:  https://source.wustl.edu/2004/02/romans-are-to-blame-for-death-of-jesus/ Arab countries lobbied against Nostra Aetate:  https://www.catholicsforisrael.com/articles/israel-and-the-church/229-the-origins-and-development-of-nostra-aetate#:~:text=At%20the%20same%20time%2C%20Abbot,the%20Declaration%20on%20the%20Jews. Demonization of the Talmud:  https://blog.nli.org.il/en/against_the_talmud/ Music By Ariel Shalom

Bishop Joseph Bambera marks the launch of a groundbreaking Catholic-Jewish initiative - Translate Hate: The Catholic Edition - with a wide-ranging interview with AJC's People of the Pod. At a time when recent events have challenged Catholic-Jewish relations, Bambera, the Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee (USCCB) on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, details why the church has made combating antisemitism a priority.  Translate Hate: The Catholic Edition, a joint project of AJC and the USCCB, features Catholic commentary on various entries of AJC's renowned Translate Hate glossary of antisemitic terms, themes, and memes. It comes as Catholic and Jewish communities prepare to mark six decades of trust-building and mutual learning beginning when the Catholic Church reached out to the Jewish people and the world with Nostra Aetate, the historic Second Vatican Council document disseminated on October 28, 1965, which dramatically and publicly decried antisemitism and transformed the Church's approach to the Jewish people for the better.Resources: New Glossary Breaks Ground in Tackling Antisemitism Through a Catholic Lens Listen – AJC Podcasts: The Forgotten Exodus: with Hen Mazzig, Einat Admony, and more. People of the Pod:  Bernard-Henri Lévy and AJC CEO Ted Deutch on How to Build a Resilient Jewish Future Post-October 7 What's Next for the Abraham Accords Under President Trump? The ICC Issues Arrest Warrants: What You Need to Know Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. __ Transcript of Conversation with Bishop Bambera: Manya Brachear Pashman:   Nearly 60 years ago, the Roman Catholic Church issued a declaration called Nostra Aetate, a groundbreaking document that, among other things, aimed to heal the Church's strained relationship with the Jewish community at large. But over the past year, since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, there have been some tense moments: a call from Pope Francis to investigate whether Israel is committing genocide, a photograph of the Pope before a Nativity scene–featuring a keffiyeh. Now AJC and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops have unveiled Translate Hate: the Catholic edition, the glossary of antisemitic terms, tropes and memes, originally published in 2019, also features Catholic commentaries to explain why the church has made combating antisemitism a priority. Here to talk about this partnership is Bishop Joseph Bambera, Chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Ecumenical and interreligious affairs. Bishop, welcome. Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera:   Thank you for the honor of being with you today. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Bishop Bambera, please walk us through the Catholic edition of Translate Hate and how the Catholic Church became involved in this initiative together with the Jewish community. Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera:   I think the best way to walk us through the Translate Hate Catholic edition is to first take us back to 1965 and the Second Vatican Council and the declaration on the church's relationship with non-Christian religions, and particularly with the Jewish community. There was this really milestone declaration Nostra Aetate that I think many of us would be familiar with, and that really speaks about our relationship as it stands today. A relationship that I would say. tragically prior to the Second Vatican Council was not what it should have been. And on the heels of the Council, for almost 60 years, an anniversary that we'll celebrate next year, we have grown together in mutual respect and understanding.  That particular declaration Nostra aetate speaks very, very clearly about the fact that Catholics and Jews really share a common patrimony. We Catholics, our roots are in Judaism. Jesus was Jewish. His family was. And so many members of the early church were as well. And we recognize and affirm in that document the fact that the Jewish people were the first to hear the Word of God and are a part of a covenant relationship that certainly has not been in any way broken, but has been maintained. And something that we affirm and that we teach in that document. A very important thing, from my perspective. And as well, the document reminds all those who would be familiar with it, and certainly who should be, if they are not, of the importance of us coming to a deeper sense of mutual respect and understanding. Of decrying any sense of hatred, persecution, or antisemitic efforts on the part of individuals that really have been such a burden to the Jewish people. So that particular document really laid the groundwork, for the very simple fact that I am here today and a part of this initiative.  But to fast forward a bit, the reality of antisemitism, as you know better than I, it has hardly diminished, and sadly, has intensified in recent years. And well before October 7 of 2023. So much so that the bishops of the United States, many of them, brought to the attention of the committee that I chair, the Bishops Committee for Humanism and Interreligious Affairs, have brought to our attention the fact that we need to begin to do something in a more concrete way. To walk more intimately and closely and lovingly with our Jewish brothers and sisters and to address the reality of antisemitism in a very real and concrete manner.  And so in 2022 this committee that I just referenced, they issued a document that they shared with all of the bishops. It's called the Fruits of Dialogues: Catholics Confronting Antisemitism. And in many respects, I would say that that particular document was the impetus for this initiative that we are a part of today, the Translate Hate Catholic Edition, hopefully it's been the impetus for other efforts on the part of many bishops in their own particular dioceses and archdiocese to work with their Jewish partners, to help to eradicate this, or certainly to address it in a way that is hope filled.  So this document has been in the works now for quite a while particularly with the leadership of the Bishop's Committee and the American Jewish Committee as well. What you will find is building upon the antisemitic themes and tropes that were placed in the document when the American Jewish Committee put it together; we have provided commentary on a number of them from a Catholic perspective. So you know, if you look at the notion of deicide, the commentary that we provide there offers very clear Catholic theological teaching on the fact that that whole reality is certainly not something that we would ever intend to insinuate today is the responsibility of all of the Jewish people. In the midst of these commentaries, we offer current theological teaching. We offer teaching on human dignity, which is so much a part of our tradition and our hope and prayer for humankind, and we acknowledge, as well, in some of those commentaries, the fact that, you know, some members of the Church throughout history have been insensitive and inappropriately offered, and perhaps even negligently offered, words and actions that led to antisemitic efforts, sadly on the part of so many. Manya Brachear Pashman:   So what is the expectation? This document is going out. How are you expecting or wanting parishes and pastors to implement it? Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera:   Given the fact that it the document that the Bishops Committee came out with in 2022 was really at the initiative of many bishops in the United States, I would like to believe and think that the vast majority of our bishops will embrace this and use it in whatever way speaks to the situation within their own territory, their own region, relative to the Jewish community there. So for example, once this is officially promulgated today, later on in the day, we will be releasing from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on our bishops-only website.  We will be releasing a letter from me as the chair of this committee, and the document, and that will be followed up with a hard copy that will be sent to every bishop in the near future, following the online version that they'll receive today. We anticipate that this will be used by other committees that might have some relationship to the work that our committee does, and the hope that they would use them. We will be disseminating it to ecumenical officers who are appointed in every one of our dioceses to do the work of ecumenism and interreligious affairs folks.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   You mentioned Nostra Atate. In 1965 you were just a child then. And I should also mention AJC played a leading role in those conversations, as well with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. You were ordained 20 years later. And I'm just curious if this major turning point in Catholic Jewish relations, did it come up in your theology training, or 20 years later, was it just accepted as the norm? Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera:   You know, I will be frank with you, the term that you used in asking the question was, did it come up? Yes, it did. It did. But given the scope of issues that would be necessary to prepare a man for ministry in the church as a priest in the seminary, it was one of many things that everything rose to the level of being absolutely vital, all right, to our preparation. So this was but it took its place in a whole line of other things that were just as vital.  So maybe the best way to answer your question was, you know, a great deal of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council was integrated into many of the theology courses that I would have taken, all right, and the same would go for something like Nostra Atate. All right. We were, I was certainly familiar with it. All right. It was certainly something that was communicated as a very significant teaching, a milestone moment in our church, a clear refocusing of our relationship with the Jewish community. Prior to that, there were no relationships officially. So it was put before us as something that was vital to consider. But I would not be honest in wanting to suggest that in some way it was a major focus. It was one of many. Manya Brachear Pashman:   I do want to fast forward and talk about today. Of course, Catholic Jewish relations are quite complicated now, especially given the Israel Hamas war, I imagine educating inspiring your flock on the moral complexities of that war, while also rallying the faithful to combat the rise of antisemitism against Israel and the Jewish Diaspora at large is very complicated, and there have been some tense moments. Recently, a letter from Pope Francis, one year after the October 7 terror attacks, included a couple kind of eerily iconic phrases from John 8:44, a verse that's long been understood as a fundamental, eternal indictment of the entire Jewish people. He was even cited by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter. A lot of Jews are irate that the Pope has called for an investigation into whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. And most recently, some people were upset that the nativity scene at the Vatican featured a baby Jesus resting in a manger draped with a keffiyeh, Palestinian national symbol, and I know that has since been removed from that scene. But how do you talk about all of these moments with your Jewish friends, friends like the Hollanders, when they arise? Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera:   First of all, the concern that you share in that question, maybe the hurt or the confusion that some of these things have caused. It's rather palpable. I spoke about it just coming into the studio today with Rabbi Marans. I would first say that the very fact that in this exchange that we are having here today, on a day that is a real positive step. I believe in Catholic Jewish relations with the promulgation of the Translate Hate Catholic Edition, I would say it's a testimony to the relationship that we have developed. And I want to thank you for that. I want to thank you for the question, you know, they're, not easy questions to address, but they are of great concern to you and so many others. And you, on behalf of your people, have a responsibility to ask me that question, and I need to say to you that my presence here today is meant to speak a word of encouragement regarding our relationship. It is one that is deeply valued. I treasure it. I'm grateful for it. I am honored to be here today.  Now with that, let me, let me speak a little bit more directly to the question and how these types of things are addressed. I look at the work that I have done in ecumenism and interreligious affairs, and I've been privileged to be chairman of this committee for a term now, for three years. I was previously back in 2017 elected chairman of this very same committee. So I've been at the helm of it twice now, and I've learned so much, so much from Christian partners, so much from our Jewish partners. One of the things that I have learned in the midst of the work that I have done with ecumenism is that I can't create a false sense of unity and harmony. For us to journey together in a positive way, I need to hear what you have to say, and I need to receive it, and I can't say something that is contrary to where my church is.  Now, another dimension of the dialogue work that I have learned relates to listening. How do we listen to what we hear about this relationship? What are we hearing when we read something about Pope Francis? How is that speaking to our hearts? What is it saying to this relationship? I hear from you hurt. I hear from you confusion. I said that a moment ago. For me, and perhaps this is the best thing that I can say, and I would say it across all three areas or topics that you raised in your question, I would say this much. I can't speak for Pope Francis. But what I can do is reflect to you what I hear from him and what I have heard from him throughout his 11 years as Pope. I have heard from him very, very early on, and you're all familiar with this quote that he offered to a Jewish interreligious organization way back, I think, in 2013 or 14, shortly after he was elected Pope, that a true Christian cannot be an antisemite. That's something that I would affirm, and that's something that I have never heard him go back on.  I have heard him embrace better than probably I have heard prior to his election, a deep commitment to the documents of Vatican Council, Vatican Two, and particularly, a deep commitment to the tenets of Nostra Aetate. The other thing that I've heard from Pope Francis, and perhaps this speaks to some of the struggle that you raise that in the face of terrorism and war and the loss of innocent lives, of Jewish lives that were lost in 2023 and of countless other lives that are lost throughout our world in the midst of war. I hear him speak over and over again about human dignity, the value of life and the reason for why we treasure life, and that's rooted in a common scripture that we both cherish, in the first book of the Torah, Genesis, the first chapter. In the image of God man was created, in the image and likeness of God. I think that that speaks for me to this moment.  It does not take away, and I would not imagine that for a moment some of the struggle that you experience, but that's what I hear when I look at his papacy. I also look at some more personal dimensions of it. And I know that his experience as the archbishop of Buenos Aires was an experience that found him deeply connected to the Jewish community, particularly to a close friend of his, whom I've been privileged to meet, Rabbi Abraham Skorka. So I share these things with you in response to your observation. And by the same token, I would say to you that we have miles to go before we achieve the end for which we are about here today. Manya Brachear Pashman:   In this moment, Bishop, do you believe that Translate Hate, specifically this new Catholic edition has particular value in this, in this moment that we talked about, where the relationship can get complicated? Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera:   I think, in any moment in time when there is suffering because of hatred, because of an antisemitic perspective that so many people so horrifically bring to life, I think this particular initiative is vital, and I think today more than ever, we have recognized it in our church, the sufferings of our Jewish brothers and sisters. We have recognized it globally. We have recognized it in our country, and we experience it in in my community, Scranton, relatively, you know, small city of about 100,000 people, you know, we it's sadly, it's sadly everywhere. I believe this moment is a bit of a clarion call for all of us to walk a little bit more authentically and closely with our Jewish brothers and sisters. It's one thing to have issued a document 60 years ago. You can forget the intensity and the significance that document was and meant 60 years ago, 50 years ago, maybe even 40 years ago. But as time goes on and generations pass, we sometimes need to refocus our attention, don't we? And we need to recognize the fact that as our society, becomes more secularized, we can't possibly circle the wagons to just preserve what we have. Every one of our congregations, many of yours and many of mine, are diminishing in terms of numbers since the pandemic, but also before that as well. And I think sadly, what you see in many congregations is this sense of trying to preserve what one has and therefore excluding others. Not just, I certainly don't necessarily mean from being in a church or a synagogue or temple, but I mean excluding from life by one's attitudes and one's actions and one's words. And I think we are, at this moment, really at risk of losing a sense of what we learn and how we grow from dialogue.  I'm here to tell you today that I am so much richer personally because of this opportunity that I have been given to be a part of this initiative, frankly, to even prepare for today. It's just been a wonderful experience for me that has really re-energized me. This wonderful mission. But it's also reminded me of how much people who are involved in in faith traditions, in a leadership position, can be somewhat academically connected to something. It's it's got to be translated to the heart, and I hope that that's what happens here. Manya Brachear Pashman:   I mentioned that you were just a child when Nostra Aetate came about. Can you tell us a little bit about your upbringing and when you heard the calling to seek ordination and become a priest? Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera:   I grew up in a Catholic family. I didn't have a lot of Jewish friends. There weren't a lot of Jewish people living in our community, although I did develop friends as as I went off to college. Okay, when I when I got the call to be a become a priest. I was actually at the University of Pittsburgh with every intention of becoming a dentist. It was kind of the family business, okay? And and I got involved in an ecumenical Christian campus ministry program. But, you know, it was just an experience that really called me to develop a deeper sense of authenticity, I think, in my faith journey, and, and, and so that's what ultimately prompted me to go into the seminary and become a priest. Did you grow up in Pittsburgh? I grew up in Scranton, where I serve as bishop, which is very unusual. So I my mom, who, at 97 still lives nearby. We I've spent my entire ministry in the Diocese of Scranton, and 15 years ago was appointed Bishop. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Wow, wow. That that is indeed rare, and that is indeed rare. So you get to see the parish in which you you grew up. Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera:   I do. I do, yeah. And I've journeyed with this community, there's, there's pluses and minuses to something like that. You know, sometimes people say, What's the best thing about being bishop in your home diocese? I say, you know people, and they know you and and what's the most challenging thing? You know people and they know you. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Well, Bishop, thank you so much for sharing what the church's teaching now and how it's collaborating with AJC to build bridges and educate your flock. Thank you so much, and thank you for joining us. Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera:   It's been a real pleasure.

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode, recorded in our Jerusalem offices. We're doing something different today and Berman and Borschel-Dan have an informal conversation about a mid-November report that Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel's attacks in Gaza constitute genocide. These remarks were included in a new book celebrating the pontiff's jubilee year and they marked the first time that Francis has openly urged for an investigation of genocide allegations over Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip. The revolution in ties between the Catholic Church and Jews began with a brief document -- Nostra Aetate -- issued on October 28, 1965, by more than 1700 Catholic bishops gathered in Rome for the Second Vatican Council. We speak about what this document states and what it represents. We learn about the relationship between the Catholic Church and Israel -- and the Jewish people writ large -- and how it has evolved from accusations of Jews as Christ-killers to a relatively Golden Age. Lately, however, observers wonder if remarks made by Pope Francis and others could mark a turning point.For news updates, please check out The Times of Israel's ongoing live blog. Discussed articles include: Pope calls for probe into whether Israel is committing ‘genocide' in Gaza Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves. IMAGE: Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, December 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From Marco Rubio to Elise Stefanik: who are the nominations that President-elect Trump has announced, and what does their selection say about how the administration may take shape? Julie Fishman Rayman, AJC Managing Director of Policy and Political Affairs reviews the names announced thus far, how, if confirmed, they could impact efforts to counter antisemitism, support Israel, and uphold democratic values, and how AJC is advocating to advance these critical issues.  Listen – AJC Podcasts: The Forgotten Exodus: with Hen Mazzig, Einat Admony, and more. People of the Pod:  What the Election Results Mean for Israel and the Jewish People The Jewish Vote in Pennsylvania: What You Need to Know Sinwar Eliminated: What Does This Mean for the 101 Hostages Still Held by Hamas? Go Deeper – AJC Analysis: Explainer: What to Know About President-elect Trump on Antisemitism, Israel, and Iran Policy AJC Briefing — Post-Election Analysis: What to Expect Under the New U.S. Administration | Tuesday, November 19 | 1:30 p.m. Eastern | Register Here Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Transcript of Conversation with Julie Fishman Rayman: Manya Brachear Pashman:   President Elect Donald Trump has named and nominated eight of the 24 officials, including his chief of staff, most of whom would make up his cabinet. Returning to discuss the nominees so far and where they stand on AJC missions of fighting antisemitism, defending Israel and safeguarding democracy, is AJC Managing Director of Policy and Political Affairs, Julie Fishman Rayman. Julie, welcome back to People of the Pod. Julie Fishman Rayman:   Thanks for having me, Manya, glad to be here. Manya Brachear Pashman:   So you have worked with some of these nominees, and you know their track record on these issues. First of all, from a 30,000-40,000 foot view, what is your overall take on the slate so far? Julie Fishman Rayman:   I feel like if you had asked me that yesterday, I would have had a totally different answer. And so I imagine even by the time People of the {od airs, my answer maybe would have even changed, so I will answer, but I want everyone, including our listeners, to take it with a grain of salt that I am speaking from a very specific moment in tim while the clock is rapidly changing and the situation is rapidly changing. So I think the initial slate of potential nominees that were announced gave a lot of folks, especially in sort of the foreign policy world, a good deal of comfort, right?  So people like Representative Mike Waltz, people like Senator Marco Rubio, those types of folks. Even Governor Huckabee, are sort of these, these names of traditional conservatives who we say, Oh, they have a record. They have governed. They have a voting record. We know exactly where they stand and what they believe, and that it's not vastly dissimilar from any other previous Republican administration.  Then, of course, there was the news about the potential coming in of Matt Gaetz, representative, Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida and Tulsi Gabbard. And I think those names and what they represent put everyone in a bit of a tailspin. Not simply because of who they are, although they come with a lot of really interesting backstory that we can unpack, if you want to, but not just because of who they are, but because they represent a really different part of the Republican Party. A really different part of the right wing world view that had not theretofore been represented in Trump's cabinet picks, definitely less of the traditional conservative mindset and much more in line with a, dare I say, like populist kind of perspective. And so there's tension now that people are trying to sort of understand and unravel. Manya Brachear Pashman:   So let's talk about each individual. And you mentioned Marco Rubio, who is Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, the Florida Senator. He currently serves on the Foreign Relations Committee. He's the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee. And I mean, he and the President Elect seem to agree on America's approach to Iran and Ukraine, but not NATO, right? I mean, where do he and Mr. Trump agree and disagree? Julie Fishman Rayman:   You're asking a question as though we have a full sense of what incoming president, former President Trump believes, which I think is a bit of an assumption. They're certainly deeply aligned on sort of big picture principles as they relate to support for Israel, no question. A tough, tough approach to whether it's an actor like Iran or China, you know, sort of these nefarious global players that seek to disrupt our world order, they're aligned there. There is a potential disconnect on Ukraine. Right? We've heard statements from Senator Rubio recently where you almost see him trying to channel the former president, the president-elect, and say, like, what would Trump say? What would Trump do?  You can like, see the wheels spinning in his mind as he talks about how we have been funding a stalemate and how something needs to change. But I'm not sure that if you put them both in a room and ask them blindfolded, apart from each other, what to do about Ukraine, if you would get the same answer, I think there would probably be a good deal of daylight.  And I think the same could be said about the future of NATO and others. But it all remains to be seen. And then, of course, also will have to be balanced with other forces that are coming into the administration, not least of which Senator JD Vance, colleague of Marco Rubio, who definitely comes with a different sort of world view. Manya Brachear Pashman:   And next on the list, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of New York, she has been nominated for the role of UN ambassador. We kind of know her as an outspoken supporter of Israel, given her high profile role in the congressional hearings about anti-Israel protests on college campuses after the Hamas terror attacks on October 7. Those hearings actually led to the resignation of a couple of university presidents. How do you foresee that outspoken support playing out in the UN arena, or maybe even in the Trump administration's approach to higher education? Julie Fishman Rayman:   In terms of the UN and antisemitism, there will be a lot of very vocal, very strident affirmations that antisemitism is not something that the US will abide. That same sort of force that Congresswoman Stefanik brought to the Education Committee, she will bring to the UN and she won't take any bones about it, and she's not going to sit down to anybody.  Of that we can be sure what that looks like, though, beyond pontification, beyond promulgations of support for the Jewish community across the globe, remains to be seen. Right? How will she engage in a UN that she certainly will perceive to be at least biased towards Israel and possibly antisemitic at its core. Right? We can make that assumption on her world view.  How will she seek to engage with a system that she presumably views as fundamentally flawed? We know that a Republican House and Senate are already sort of gearing up towards cutting funding of major UN institutions, if not the UN across the board. So what does that mean for her role? What does that mean for the voice that the United States will have and the ability for her very strong voice, to even be at the table, and that's sort of where some of that tension arrives is also, do you get in the room? Do you get the seat at the table? Or are you on the menu? Right? The United States is never going to be on the menu, but are we going to, by virtue of our own sort of principles, going to push our seat back in and stand in the hallway. There's a lot of calculi that she's going to have to make there. In terms of the Department of Education and Congress and how they're dealing with these really important issues that that Congresswoman Stefanik has put at the fore for so long, there's no question that the threat of pulling federal funding that we've heard from the Biden administration repeatedly will be more believed under a future Trump administration. I think there are universities all over the country that already are saying, oh, like, what do we have to do? We don't want to get caught in these crosshairs. What do we need to do to make sure that we are not either under fire with the light shining on us or on the chopping block for federal funding?  So if you're an educational institution that really believes that there is a true threat that you're to your federal funding, you're reconsidering a lot of steps. And if in fact, federal funding is leveraged or cut, I think we have to be really mindful of three things. One, we have to make sure that it doesn't look as though the Jews are behind this crushing blow, because that's scapegoating. And we have to make sure that shuttering these major academic institutions doesn't foreclose the creation, the necessary creation, of future American doctors and engineers and others. And finally, we have to make sure that we're not creating a void in funding that could really easily be filled by foreign actors that are already known to use university funding to advance a particular ideology, to advance their own interests. Manya Brachear Pashman:   I want to go back to another name you mentioned at the top, and that is the Florida congressman, Michael Waltz. He has been named as National Security Advisor to head up the National Security Council, and he has been a huge champion of the Abraham accords. So what can we expect to see from him if he indeed does take this post. Julie Fishman Rayman:   So one of the things that I think is really interesting about, you know, looking back on the last trump administration, while we sort of forecast for the next, is that the National Security Council, this body that Mike Waltz will lead, was always the brain trust for him in the previous administration. Of course, there was the State Department. It was filled, it was supported. But generally, I think he thought of the State Department as a place of a foreign policy bureaucracy, where passports got stamped, that kind of, step by step, day by day, keeping the wheels turning, but not where real change happened.  So if we're, you know, we're talking about Marco Rubio at State, we're talking about Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, I think we really need to sort of dig into what's Waltz gonna bring. And of course, like, as you said, Manya deeply supportive of Abraham Accords, very hawkish when it comes to China, and very, very embedded in the military establishment himself, right? He's not the DoD pick, but he's a Green Beret vet. He served in Afghanistan, he served in the Middle East. He served in Africa. In addition to being on the foreign affairs committee and Congress, he was on the Armed Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee, if there are, if there's a trifecta of committees that someone could serve on to be as informed and at sort of the pinnacle of information about what's going on in this world, it's those three committees. Ukraine is the big question mark here. He's criticized aid to Ukraine, and has talked about getting Putin to the negotiating table, getting a diplomatic solution, or some sort of settlement to this war. And that I think remains this major looming question for a lot of folks about, as we're looking at these various picks whose voice is going to win here. Or, you know, if we're channeling the last Trump administration again, who's going to be the last person in his ear before he goes and makes a major announcement. Manya Brachear Pashman:   You mentioned DoD. Let's talk about President Elect Trump's DoD pick. Fox News anchor Pete hegseth, he is a retired US Army Major. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan, but a surprising pick to head the Department of Defense.  Julie Fishman Rayman:   It's interesting that you asked that question, because I think for folks who just think of him as a, you know, the guy on the Fox News couch, everyone who I've talked to who really knows Pete Hegseth and really is engaged with him for a long time, they they're not surprised, and they say, Oh, that does make sense. I don't know how much we can anticipate his fox views translating into a DoD cabinet pick. I don't really know how to manage that, right? He's talked about, like the Joint Chiefs, for example, in sort of a disparaging way.  So, he's definitely one of these picks that you know shows the future President's desire to be at the vanguard, right? He wants to shake things up. He wants to keep people on their toes.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Okay, so now let's move on to some of the names you mentioned that are curious, curious choice. Other curious choices. Former Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, she has been nominated to serve as Trump's chief intelligence advisor, the Director of National Intelligence. That would mean she would be responsible for overseeing 18 spy agencies and keeping the President informed of the nation's international intelligence as anti semitism rises around the world, incidents like what we saw in Amsterdam this past weekend continue to flare up. Do you foresee her prioritizing that kind of news for the president elect? Julie Fishman Rayman:   This is a position that has to be confirmed by the Senate, and it's not, I think, a slam dunk in a lot of ways. She's not always been a Republican. She certainly hasn't always been a Trumpist Republican. She had a major leadership role in the Democratic Party for quite some time. She was the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, and not rank and file, she resigned from that position to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2016 she supported the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran deal that many Democrats broke with the administration to oppose that. AJC opposed, I think that there's a lot of baggage that she brings, and not personal baggage, but policy baggage that might make it very, very difficult for her to make the step through that confirmation process, and someone very smart said that'll be the test. Maybe I'll give him credit. Josh Kraushauer, the editor of Jewish insider, said this will be the test for how Senate leadership is going to respond to the calls from President Trump. You know, if they're able to just sort of if Senator Thune, in this new role that he has just received is able to push through the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard, then we can expect a lot of confirmations legislation Trump desires to move through the Senate. If she gets a little bit held up. If it's not as easy, then we can anticipate just a little bit more gridlock, as much gridlock as one could expect from one party control of the House, Senate and the White House. But a little bit more of a pushback. It'll be a real test. Manya Brachear Pashman:   She is nominated to be his chief intelligence advisor, and yet she has posted blatantly false propaganda on her social media channels. And people know that, people have called her out for that. Is that concerning? Julie Fishman Rayman:   I think it's deeply concerning whenever anyone puts out blatantly false propaganda, particularly that which emanates from Russia, that is problematic at any level of elected official, appointed official, period. We need to constantly, as a society and as a nation, be on fierce guard against that, because it is real and it is pervasive. I anticipate that, you know, when the confirmation hearings are up, there's going to be a lot of questions about, you know, what has she posted, where is she getting her information, and from whom does she rely on for real, authoritative information that is truthful? Manya Brachear Pashman:   So another name that you mentioned at the top of the conversation, and that is Congressman, well now former Congressman Matt Gaetz from Florida, since he resigned immediately after his nomination for attorney general. He was one of, I think, 21 republicans who voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act in May, saying he couldn't support a definition of antisemitism that labeled claims of Jews killing Jesus as antisemitic. I think Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel might have had some choice words for him, if he is indeed, if he indeed progresses through this process toward Attorney General, what could we see from him? What can we see, period, of this whole process? Julie Fishman Rayman:   So first off, I just, I want to speak a little bit about it was sort of him in his record, because I think that it's important for our community to to be refreshed about exactly who Matt Gaetz is it there were a number of Republicans who voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act because they did not think that it was appropriate for there to be a law that says the Jews didn't kill Jesus. This is, of course, like a sort of gross mischaracterization of what the international Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of anti semitism says and purports to do. But he wasn't alone. And it was, it was very interesting to see how this, this sort of trope that I think a lot of us thought was over about the Jews killing Jesus. You know, Nostra Aetate was in the 70s, right? So we thought that this was done and behind us. But to hear, particularly from the evangelical set, that, okay, like, maybe the Jews didn't kill Jesus, or maybe they did.  He also invited a Holocaust denier and a white supremacist to be his guest at the State of the Union later, he said, like, Oh, I didn't really know. But either he got terrible staffing or he knew, and he just didn't want to get caught. He's deeply, deeply scandal ridden, without question. And he, you know, is constantly defending Marjorie Taylor Green, who, you know, compared the COVID mask laws to, you know, the Holocaust and things like that. He called the ADL racist. He is not representative of any stream, really, within the Republican Party. He is emblematic of the most populist of the populace, the most MAGA of the MAGA. So we should remember who he is, first and foremost.  Beyond that, I cannot imagine an America that would confirm him as Attorney General. I'm a congressist by heart. I believe that Congress does the right things, if given enough time to do so, and I cannot believe that they'll let this one go through. So forgive my rant. I think it needs to be said about him. But in terms of, you know, who are we watching, and what do we think is going to happen in the long term? I don't think there's a long term there. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Let's talk about another pick, and that is his pick for Homeland Security, who I don't think is so outlandish, and that is South Dakota Governor Christie gnomes. She could play a really vital role in his immigration the proposal that he's made for the immigration system. She has been a strong ally of AJC in the past.  Julie Fishman Rayman:   Yes, she has. When she signed North South Dakota's bill, um on the international Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, working definition of antisemitism, when she signed into law, AJC was there. She's been outspoken about anti semitism, and has consistently, sort of done, she's done the right things there. That being said, South Dakota has a very small Jewish population. So it's not, the same as if she were the governor of New York or Florida or even California that has major Jewish populations that are constantly calling with various, you know, security needs or something like that. So she's been there when she's needed to be there. Manya Brachear Pashman:   And I know South Dakota is not a border state, but didn't she send army reserves to the border to help Texas Governor Greg Abbott, at one point? Julie Fishman Rayman:   She has. A lot of Republican governors sort of backed Abbott in that way. I think that her crew in the governors, in the Republican Governors Association, etc, will be much aligned with the incoming administration. And of course, you know, that's why she's picked. Manya Brachear Pashman:   We also have the choice of John Ratliff, who Trump has named as a potential CIA director. And you know, technically, CIA director is the person who's nominated as head of intelligence is the CIA director's boss, and so he was the former director or chief intelligence advisor. So in a way, it's kind of a demotion. However, what I've read is President elect Trump believes that the CIA director is actually more important. So what are we looking at here? Are we looking at a smoother confirmation process for the CIA director, perhaps, and are we looking at kind of an elevation of that job?  Julie Fishman Rayman:   I think we can probably assume it's an elevation, and in the same way that we talked about the previous Trump administration prioritizing the National Security Council almost above the State Department, I think we'll see that sort of shift in alignment, the CIA being sort of the new center of gravity, if it wasn't already within the the intelligence community. So I think that we probably will see him playing a much more dominant role. That being said, I think America has always held this deep fascination with CIA directors, FBI directors. They always, because of the really interesting and critical roles they play, they always sort of punch above their weight in terms of, you know, how much are they on TV? How much are people watching what they're saying and what they're doing? So I think that we can absolutely anticipate that. And you know, he has some skeletons in his closet, but I don't think that there's anything that will prohibit or impede his nomination for that role. Manya Brachear Pashman:   And as a religion reporter, I found the naming of former Governor Mike Huckabee as the ambassador, a potential ambassador to Israel, to be very interesting, given that he is an evangelical Christian, a Baptist pastor. Aren't too many non-Jewish ambassadors to Israel. There have been some, but not too many. And I thought that this was a really interesting selection. What can we see or expect to see from that choice? Julie Fishman Rayman:   You know, part of me kind of loves this for America. I think there's, Governor Huckabee has always been a stalwart supporter of Israel, without question, deeply, deeply supportive. There are questions about, what is he going to do with regard to like, the question of settlements or annexation and things like that. And and I think we're going to have to be watching that very, very closely.  But if we're looking sort of at the macro level, the issue of Israel and America has become so polarized and in some ways so toxic, that this reminder that it's not just the Jews that care about Israel, I think, couldn't come at a better time.  I do think that it's really interesting to now have someone going to sit at the embassy that President Trump moved to Jerusalem, who is not representing the Jewish community there, but representing the massive Evangelical community in the United States and even frankly, around the world. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Well, Julie, thank you so much for sharing your perspectives. As these names keep trickling out each day, many things are said, some important, some not so important. So I'm glad I appreciate you kind of focusing our audience on what matters to AJC, what matters to the Jewish community and for those who support Israel. So thank you so much.  Julie Fishman Rayman:   It's been my pleasure and many and if I can just say, as we conclude that the personalities take up a lot of space, they take up a lot of oxygen. But for AJC, we're always singularly focused on the policies, and we'll continue doing what we've been doing already for months, and that's reaching everyone who will have influence in this next administration, to advance our policy perspective, to share our agenda and to talk about what we think needs to form the policy priorities of the next administration.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Thank you so much, Julie. Julie Fishman Rayman:   Thank you.  

Send us a textJoin us in a compelling exploration of Pope Francis's recent remarks to Singaporean youth, where we, Deacon Mike Hayes and Father Damian Ference, unpack the essence of interfaith dialogue. This episode promises to clear the air on any misconceptions, emphasizing that the Pope respects the distinctiveness of each faith while championing the rays of truth found in all religions. Discover how the Second Vatican Council's teachings guide us toward a harmonious coexistence, as reflected in the Catholic Good Friday liturgy.Through a nuanced conversation, we take on the common perception of being spiritual but not religious, considering how well-practiced religion naturally includes elements of spirituality. We also delve into how God's grace transcends traditional boundaries, resonating with young people who seek spiritual connections in nature and everyday life. Enhance your understanding of how Pope Francis's messages, often misunderstood, are more about inclusivity and understanding than controversy.Church Search celebrates Faith and Culture at St Michael's and St. Clarence.On a more personal note, we explore the liberating journey of letting go for spiritual freedom. This week's readings discuss themes of wealth, humility, and reliance on God. Reflecting on personal experiences with loss, there's a powerful conversation about the desire to declutter and simplify life, setting the stage for meaningful spiritual growth. Prepare for more enlightening discussions as we continue to challenge assumptions and embrace a path of deeper understanding and connection.

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L?Eglise « reconnaît que les prémices de sa foi et de son élection se trouvent, selon le mystère divin du salut, dans les patriarches, Moïse et les prophètes. » (Déclaration Nostra Aetate n°4, octobre 1965). Régis Burnet revient avec ses invités sur ce « grand patrimoine spirituel, commun » qui unit dans la foi juifs et chrétiens.

Rabbi Dr. Mark Kinzer discusses the Catholic Church's embrace of distinction theology and its impact on Jewish-Christian dialogue and the Messianic Jewish movement. He highlights the significance of the Second Vatican Council and the documents Lumen Gentium and Nostra Aetate in redefining the church's understanding of itself and its relationship with the Jewish people. The Catholic Church's rejection of deicide and recognition of the ongoing special relationship with the Jewish people have had a profound impact on Christian theology and paved the way for further dialogue and understanding. This conversation explores the theological developments and dialogue between Messianic Judaism and the Roman Catholic Church. It delves into the concept of Jesus as the Living Torah and the connection between Yeshua and the Jewish people. The role of Cardinal Lustiger in emphasizing Jewish identity within the Catholic Church is highlighted. The conversation also touches on the progress being made in the Catholic Church regarding the recognition of the enduring significance of the land of Israel. Overall, this dialogue is seen to be of historic significance and a promising trajectory for Catholic theology. – Episode Takeaways – The Second Vatican Council, prompted by the Holocaust, marked a significant reassessment of the Catholic Church's understanding of itself and its relationship with the Jewish people. The documents Lumen Gentium and Nostra Aetate work together to lay out how the church understands and identifies itself and how it understands and identifies itself in relationship to other religions of the world. The Catholic document The Gifts and Calling of God Are Irrevocable went even further to express the enduring covenant between God and the Jewish people. As a Jewish Cardinal, Jean-Marie Lustiger made significant contributions to the dialogue between Judaism and Christianity. Acting as a counselor to Pope John Paul II on the Jewish people, he emphasized Jesus' solidarity with his people and the continued Jewish identity of Jews within the church. He saw the suffering of the Jewish people as a part of the Messiah's suffering, highlighting the deep identification of the Messiah with His people. The Catholic Church is moving toward visible changes to reflect the realization of the enduring significance of Jewish identity within the church and the Jewish people in the land of Israel. – Episode Resources – Searching Her Own Mysteries by Rabbi, Dr. Mark Kinzer https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Her-Own-Mystery-Identity/dp/1498203310 Nostra Aetate https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html Lumen Gentium https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html The Gifts and Calling of God Are Irrevocable http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/commissione-per-i-rapporti-religiosi-con-l-ebraismo/commissione-per-i-rapporti-religiosi-con-l-ebraismo-crre/documenti-della-commissione/en.html Film: The Jewish Catholic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2806908 Messiah Podcast is a production of First Fruits of Zion (https://ffoz.org) in conjunction with Messiah Magazine. This publication is designed to provide rich substance, meaningful Jewish contexts, cultural understanding of the teaching of Jesus, and the background of modern faith from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Messiah Podcast theme music provided with permission by Joshua Aaron Music (http://JoshuaAaron.tv). “Cover the Sea” Copyright WorshipinIsrael.com songs 2020. All rights reserved.

 DECLARACIÓN  NOSTRA AETATE  SOBRE LAS RELACIONES DE LA IGLESIACON LAS RELIGIONES NO CRISTIANASProemio1. En nuestra época, en la que el género humano se une cada vez más estrechamente y aumentan los vínculos entre los diversos pueblos, la Iglesia considera con mayor atención en qué consiste su relación con respecto a las religiones no cristianas. En cumplimiento de su misión de fundamentar la Unidad y la Caridad entre los hombres y, aún más, entre los pueblos, considera aquí, ante todo, aquello que es común a los hombres y que conduce a la mutua solidaridad.Todos los pueblos forman una comunidad, tienen un mismo origen, puesto que Dios hizo habitar a todo el género humano sobre la faz de la tierra, y tienen también un fin último, que es Dios, cuya providencia, manifestación de bondad y designios de salvación se extienden a todos, hasta que se unan los elegidos en la ciudad santa, que será iluminada por el resplandor de Dios y en la que los pueblos caminarán bajo su luz.Los hombres esperan de las diversas religiones la respuesta a los enigmas recónditos de la condición humana, que hoy como ayer, conmueven íntimamente su corazón: ¿Qué es el hombre, cuál es el sentido y el fin de nuestra vida, el bien y el pecado, el origen y el fin del dolor, el camino para conseguir la verdadera felicidad, la muerte, el juicio, la sanción después de la muerte? ¿Cuál es, finalmente, aquel último e inefable misterio que envuelve nuestra existencia, del cual procedemos y hacia donde nos dirigimos?...

The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas probably has you and your families, coworkers, and others, thinking and talking about the history and dynamics of the Jewish people and the Palestinians. It may also have you thinking about the relationship between the Catholic Church and our sisters and brothers of other faiths. Father Erich Rutten, pastor of Christ the King and St. Thomas the Apostle in Minneapolis, joined host Patrick Conley to help us navigate the complexity of interfaith relationships and discuss the Vatican II declaration, Nostra Aetate. Learn more about the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies and ways you can get involved with interfaith engagement. Like what you're hearing? Leave us a review, subscribe, and follow us on social media @practicingcatholicshow! Direct social media links: Instagram Facebook YouTube

Ever wonder about the stark contrast between a MAGA wife and an AOC wife? Or maybe you're curious about the vibrant Catholicism of the 14th century compared to the seemingly powerless Catholics of the 21st? Buckle up for a rollercoaster ride as we traverse these topics and more, including the modern Catholic Church, performative Catholicism, and the intriguing question of whether Muslims and Christians worship the same God.As we navigate through the episode, we'll also discuss the importance of a work-home separation. We'll share our insights on how being too uptight can be detrimental to our faith, and touch upon the teachings of the Catholic Church and Nostra Aetate, which we'll compare to our favorite foods – yes, you read that right, an apple! If you're intrigued by the intertwining of technology and religion, look out for our chat about the rise of Catholic YouTube personalities, and how they owe their existence to Francis. We'll also take a look at the impact of technology during the pandemic and discuss the concept of performative Catholicism.  So, let's get started, shall we?*******************************************************https://www.avoidingbabylon.comLocals Community:  https://avoidingbabylon.locals.comStore:  https://avoiding-babylon.sellfy.store/RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rssSpiritusTV:  https://spiritustv.com/@avoidingbabylonRumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1626455Odysee:  https://odysee.com/@AvoidingBabylonBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Support the showCheck out our new store!

Le père Christophe Le Sourt pour le livre « Déconstruire l'antijudaïsme chrétien » aux éditions du Cerf est l'invité de RCJ Midi au micro de Rudy Saada. À propos du livre : « Déconstruire l'antijudaïsme chrétien » paru aux éditions Cerf Depuis Vatican II, le dialogue théologique entre chrétiens et juifs constitue l'un des événements les plus considérables du monde contemporain. L'Église ne s'engage pas simplement en faveur du judaïsme, mais lutte aussi contre l'antisémitisme. Voici son manuel de combat qui dit la vérité sur l'un des pires maux d'hier et malheureusement d'aujourd'hui " Le Dieu de l'Ancien Testament est violent, alors que celui du Nouveau Testament est amour ", " l'Alliance nouvelle a remplacé l'ancienne, les juifs sont déicides " : autant de clichés véhiculés durant des siècles qui ont nourri des sentiments hostiles et méprisants envers les juifs, ce que l'on appelle l'antijudaïsme chrétien. Ce livre est un parcours simple et pédagogique qui conduit au plus profond des consciences. Vingt thèmes sont proposés au lecteur qui trouvera leur développement essentiellement dans l'enseignement de l'Église. Car oui, depuis plus d'un demi-siècle, de la déclaration conciliaire Nostra Aetate de 1965 jusqu'à la déclaration des évêques de France de 2021, l'Église redit avec détermination que le lien qui la relie spirituellement à la lignée d'Abraham est unique, que les juifs sont " nos frères bien-aimés " et qu'il est urgent de combattre les clichés et les malentendus qui abîment cette fraternité. Cet ouvrage est un outil précieux pour nourrir le dialogue entre juifs et chrétiens et leur permettre d'être " ensemble une bénédiction pour le monde ". Christophe le Sourt, Organe de la Conférence des évêques de France, le Service national pour les relations avec le judaïsme (SNRJ), constitue une instance à la fois d'expertise et de dialogue.

En octubre de 1958, el italiano Ángelo Roncalli, fue elegido como el máximo líder de la iglesia católica con 77 años de edad. Sus cinco años de papado, son recordados por sus labores humanitarias, por la modernización de prácticas religiosas y por su posición a favor del pueblo judío. Desde sus diferentes cargos anteriores al papado, mantuvo una posición cercana y a favor de los judíos. Cuando transcurrieron los hechos más terribles del Holocausto en Europa, él era delegado apostólico en Turquía, y desde allí, se propuso salvar a muchos judíos del exterminio nazi. Roncalli utilizó su influencia diplomática para ayudar a escapar a niños judíos hacia Palestina, emitió certificados de bautismo y certificados de inmigración y visas, muchas de ellas falsas, para que así miles de judíos pudieran salvarse. Como Papa, su aporte más importante a favor de los judíos fue la iniciativa del Concilio Vaticano II,  allí en la Declaración “Nostra Aetate” sobre las relaciones de la Iglesia con las religiones no cristianas, ordenó borrar las oraciones en el párrafo 4, donde la iglesia iba en contra de los judíos durante la semana santa, afirmando su rechazo a cualquier forma de persecución hacia ellos. Tan solo con recordar una de sus últimas plegarias, entenderemos como la iglesia católica, en cabeza del Papa Juan XXIII, inició un cambio para acabar con los pensamientos de odio y discriminación que habían perdurado por siglos en el pensamiento católico: “Perdónanos por la maldición que hemos atribuido injustamente a los hebreos. Perdónanos por haberte crucificado una segunda vez en ellos, en su carne, perdónanos por ser ignorantes”.

The word “Christianity” may need to go away for a while, like on a desert retreat. It needs to go off to a sweatlodge with St. Anthony of Egypt again so it can figure out what Jesus intended. Few Protestant denominations remain that teach what “Christianity” really entails or demands. The familiarity of it has bred contempt and complacency, which has led to extremely watered-down versions. This is exactly why St. Anthony and the Desert Fathers exited the culture in the third century. Even back then it had been diluted into a cheap BBQ lighter fluid instead of the 100% explosive ethanol it was on Pentecost. Today, it can be restored to be highly flammable once again, but it won't be done by being “cool” in the culture or by flopping around speaking in tongues or doing fake healings or by affirming sin or denying that the devil exists. It will be restored to it's original strange potency by the same old proven methods: prayer, fasting, and charity. But once again, like in the time of the Desert Fathers, the errors that led people away from proper worship and correct doctrine must be re-visited, because they have been allowed back in. All of them. It almost as if a busload of old heresies showed up at the pool, and barged right in without checking their floaties, food, weapons, and drugs at the door. Many of them don't even bother to wear a swimsuit, as modesty and ideas about sin are old-fashioned. Now the pool is in mayhem. Only a few lifeguards (in red hats) are shouting while others have joined in the orgy. Fortunately, the party is almost over, since it has become a pool no one wants to swim in. The newcomers and families who would like to swim take one look at the chaos and decide to stay home - after all, they can setup their own pool - who needs the community pool? Thus we have many trying to claim the main pool, and millions of little pools where people isolate in their own anti-social backyard. The heresies have stunk up the water to the point that the “Christian” pool is more like a swamp lagoon. Now it will require a lockdown for cleaning. After draining, it needs a full sandblasting before a refill. The intense, long battle against errors about who Jesus was, what Jesus said, and what he taught, waged over centuries, needs to be waged all over again. Today, it's not even clear that people understand the word heresy. And to be fair, it is an ugly word. “Heretic” combines two sounds that make Minnesotans like me shiver: “hair” and “tick.” This sounds like a burrowing insect at the base of my hairline. Where I live, ticks raise goosebumps on people more than snakes. Whenever I've discovered one engorged on a dog's belly, or see one climbing my shirt after a walk in the woods, it gives me a case of the heebie-jeebies. But perhaps this strange association is apt. A tick buried in skin kind of fits well with what heresy does. Because a tiny corruption like that caused by a tick lodging in your skin is much like how a heretical idea poisons and corrupts individuals or entire nations. Heresy is not unlike Lyme disease in that it often has a subtle entry point but leads to an insidious devastation of the body as it spreads. The idea of heresy is something people don't even like to talk about, but I think it needs to be. I doubt that the average Joe Christian has ever heard of Marcionism, or Pelagianism, or any other heresy, but many certainly speak those heresies openly. Ideas long ago denounced as un-Christian are mentioned as if they were orthodox in casual conversation. But this isn't surprising, given the past few centuries of rejecting all authority. Almost everyone now is their own Pope, so even if I mentioned the basics of a heresy, my listener would respond, “Who made you the Pope?” To which I would answer, “Do you see a funny hat on me? Long ago, after a big todo, the Church declared…” And that's exactly where the conversation would end, because the appeal to authority beyond the “Self” would outrage the listener. “The Church has entered the chat.” When that happens, the modern American, Protestant, public school brain exits the chat. It's over. Authority? Are you claiming authority? Are you kidding me? We have hundreds of years of literature and philosophy and theology crammed between our ears, where the only authority is in national power and the self. America itself is a rejection of old-world “authority.” But this continual march of rejecting authority has put the West in an odd state. Because once the highest authority of God and his Church was thrown out, and the Pope put in his corner in Vatican City, the nations must act as the moral authority. They have been doing this for about three centuries now. Mentioning the Church's authority leads to an automatic response. Like a trained bear that can dance, the hearer waltzes off stage on cue. Or, more likely today than ever, this “tamed” bear attacks and mauls the trainer. What's most interesting today is that in our rejection of authority, so few today are called to the priesthood, but nearly everyone is called to the pontificate. Worth noting here is that “pontiff” means bridge-builder. But with a billion mini-popes in the world, we end up having a lot of bridges to nowhere, because all of the bridges lead directly back to the self. This isn't just an issue among Protestants or agnostics, it's rampant within the Catholic Church, too. So many people don't know what the teaching of the Church is that you can hear the echoes of ancient errors every day, even among bishops. Imagine: a bishop that doesn't understand errors that have existed for thousands of years. You don't have to imagine it. This is happening all over Europe and the United States. This is the equivalent of an NFL coach not knowing what is a “first down,” or what a “nickel defense” is used for. Could you imagine a coach who worked for thirty years to reach the top, and then have it be revealed that he thought the game was soccer? No. This seems almost impossible, unless somehow you have cronyism or ideology (or both) interfering with the proper promotion of educated and competent bishops. And this of course is exactly what we have. The creep of heresy gets in like a tic. It's like Soviet Science or modern American sociology, where ideology has replaced the goal of seeking the Truth, the highest Truth. And it replays over and over in history. It's Plato versus the Sophists. It's Athanasius versus Arius. It's Augustine versus Pelagius. It's Marx versus Pope Leo XIII. Heresy is ideology that bleeds into faith and skews the right understanding of God, the Trinity, Jesus, the Sacraments, and the whole Church. And it always starts with the rejection of God, in some form, and the elevation of what a person wants. “Blessed are the heretics,” said Stanley Hauerwas. What he meant by this was that without those pushing errors, we wouldn't see the Truth so clearly. So luckily we have Marcion and Pelagius and Nestorius to illustrate the errors. Their ideas act like bugs on a windshield, where you don't need to stop until it gets really bad, and then you must pull over at the nearest service station and squeegee like a maniac with elbow grease to get the encrusted scum off. Sin works this way; sin is not a big deal, until it is. Until your sin is going to cause a major accident and maybe even kill you, you don't take action to fix the disorder. When you hear a bishop defending an old heresy, often with new words, that was called a heresy long ago, it leads to confusion for the team. Trust in leadership is undermined, especially when the waterboy understands the game better than the coach. You cannot have the offensive coordinator telling the running backs they must run backward from now on. If that ever happened in the NFL, a firing would surely occur. Yet we are not seeing the firings despite wild errors in “coaching” from those in charge in the Church. This is likely because the Church moves slowly, which is good, since they operate like the Ents in Lord of the Rings. Anything worth saying is worth taking a long time to say it. This is one of the great features of the Church so that they don't jump to conclusions. There is something called “The Peter Principle,” which has nothing to do with St. Peter or the Church, but simply states that people will be promoted in their career to one level higher than they should be, right to the point where they are incompetent. This doesn't apply to all bishops, obviously, just a few, but whenever you hear a high-ranking person espouse an idea that was jettisoned as an error many centuries ago, you have to scratch your head and wonder how or why God is working through this. But rest assured that God is doing just that. Errors about Christianity are ever-present in both the culture and the Church, and I suspect this has been the case since Peter finished his first speech on Pentecost, as surely strange interpretations began immediately. There are many bishops sticking to doctrine and the Truth, with Bishop Barron doing a beautiful job of articulating the faith, following in a long line of great articulators, like Saints Cyril, Maximus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Damascene, Newman, Sheen, and many, many others. Teaching Wednesday night religion class recently, a kid raised his hand and told me, “My dad says that Jesus is the good God, and the God of the Old Testament was the one that would squash you.” “Kid,” I said, “Your dad is a heretic.” Just kidding. I didn't say that. “Kid,” I said, “Have you ever heard of Marcion?” Just kidding. I didn't say that either. How many adults today have heard of Marcion? Who has ever heard of Marcion, or Menander, or the Cathars? Few today have heard of these old names except for geeky Catholics who know about the ecumenical councils where the early Church had to settle these disputes. These old heresies argued for exactly what this kid's dad was teaching. This idea springs up repeatedly, and if we haven't heard of Marcion, we've certainly heard of Nazi Germany, which was rife with Marcionism as an offshoot of its hatred and ethnic cleansing of the Jews. (Tip: Marcionism always goes hand in hand with anti-Old Testament thinking and makes a beeline toward anti-Jewish thoughts and behavior.) Any time that Catholicism lacks respect for the Jews, it is in error, and this is why the document known as Nostra Aetate was sorely needed, as a reminder that the Church “recalls that the Apostles, the Church's main-stay and pillars, as well as most of the early disciples who proclaimed Christ's Gospel to the world, sprang from the Jewish people.” I also must add here, that if Jesus is God, and you believe that as I do, then he inspired the entire Old Testament, including the parts that are confusing, and Jesus was a devout Jew, as were Mary and Joseph. So for any Catholic to misunderstand the intensely deep meaning of the Jewish roots of Christianity is to be like the sower's seed on the rocky path. If Jesus is God, and if Scripture is inspired by God, and all of the prophecies of the Messiah were foretold by God, and the story of the chosen people is God winning back the world, then throwing out the Old Testament seems a bad idea. The kid's father who taught Marcionism was doing the same thing that a writer like Dan Brown does in his novels (as wildly inaccurate in history and logic as they are). He finds an old heresy and dusts it off as something fresh and new. Then it's presented as a fact, as a new “orthodoxy” and then believers have to spend lots of time re-arguing what has already been argued and ruled upon. But this is one of the strengths of the Church, actually, in that it has a structure that can do this. We can all see the Protestants lack this authority to rule, which leads to heresy proliferating like a cytokine storm. Truly, if there is one weakness in the Eastern Orthodox churches, it's that they cannot resolve disputes like the Catholic Church can, because the Bishop of Rome can speak from the Chair of Peter, as Christ gave Peter the keys, which is to say, the authority. What's old is new, but none of the heresies are actually new. You can go read St. Irenaeus who wrote Against Heresies in the second century, and most heresies today were already in play. Over time, new errors have come about, and over the centuries others have written books to define these errors, and why they are errors, like St. Alphonsus Liguori with the History of Heresies. There are many. St. Hippolytus of Rome. Denzinger. Belloc. Fortunately, we don't have to go read all of these, we can just read the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It's the Reader's Digest condensed version of about a million pages and scrolls from Adam to Pope Francis. There's a reason these ideas come back to life, and it's because we default toward doubt, not faith. And faith is a gift. With the eyes of faith, the heresies are clear, as the scales fall away from our vision once we see Christ for who he really is, and that is God. Once you can see Jesus and hear the word of God, then it's clear why none of the heresies work in practice. This is why they don't stick. They come and go like an Old Navy shirt - sure, it feels good for a bit, but you can tell how cheap it is, and you'll throw it out after a few years. The heresies sound good when you first discover them. They seem to make sense. This is why it took me a while to figure out that everything that Dan Brown writes is actually a spoof comedy, not a drama. Because his send-ups of heresy as truth and adventures in bad history lessons made me re-arrange my video shelf so that The Da Vinci Code sits right next to Dumb and Dumber. When I need a light-hearted night to let loose, I can choose either movie. The reason heresy is declared and marked as incorrect is not about power and control. It's about what heresies do, and what they don't do. It's about how they misunderstand Jesus and salvation history. It's about a false way to know God. The reason heresies are declared is simple: they do not work. They do not work logically or spiritually. They do not work in the mind, in the soul, or in the body. This is the thing I've been saying in this entire series in talking about sales and practical application. There are many shiny things that seem real, but like advertising for bad products, those things wind up being a mirage in the desert. What works is not just that which sells. Consumers and voters may select bad choices. Mistakes play out over time, long after the sale was made. What becomes heresy is not based on popular opinion, but based on what happens when an error is chosen. There is perhaps nothing more vindicating in the Church's slowness than in its rejection of birth control and abortion, as both of these “cure-all” remedies of the techno-utopian evangelists have blown up spectacularly. What was supposed to solve divorce, unhappiness, and family issues has exploded in divorce, unhappiness, and family issues. What works is that which lasts and endures through the ages. What works isn't always what seems easy, but what works satisfies the intellect, the will, the body, and the soul. Virtue works. Chastity works. Humility works. Faith works. Hooking up with random sex partners and pretending it doesn't matter? That doesn't work. Shouting your abortion? That doesn't work. Believe in yourself instead of something higher? That doesn't work. Perception is reality? That doesn't work. All of these ideas run into the rock of life, the true test, where bad ideas run aground. But we forget this every generation, and we re-learn it in every generation. We forget the Truth because we want to be new and clever, but the bad ideas are always old and warmed-up leftovers. This is why someone like Jean-Paul Sartre can be celebrated for a hundred years for saying, “God is dead,” when he's just saying the same thing every middle-schooler has said since the beginning of time. But when you do so with a Ph.D. it seems to have weight, despite the long-winded argument being the result of never growing past high school rebellion. What happens then is that everyone else also stuck in that ninth-grade rejection of authority, claps their hands and says, “Brilliant!” because it satisfies their egos and excuses their sin. This is why the same heresies pop up and die over and over again because heresies are exactly like dandelions. Orthodoxy, however, is like a redwood tree. Hardwoods grow slowly, apparently weak as saplings, while the wild and fast-growing grasses spring up quickly. But what is apparently hale and hearty in spring dies in the autumn. The hardwoods always win in the end, because they are built to last through the seasons of life, and that includes the winter of suffering. To go back to the sports metaphor, Catholicism is a fourth-quarter faith. It's not for the first drive down the field, or for the halftime show. It's built for the last drive that wins the game. It's for the long haul, made to last, not for showing off and fading away. So, to bring this back to heresy and Marcion: you have to read about Marcion to understand why his idea of “the Old Testament God is not the same as the New Testament” is an error all by itself, and a very dangerous one at that because it twists scripture into a wildly different shape. In the early church, Tertullian and others took up the battle and won the argument, closing the door on Marcionism forever as an error in what the Church founded by Jesus believes. And it's not a “because I said so” argument and defense, it is well-reasoned and logical, and worth exploring. Many of the “Jesus as the dude” arguments are a form of Marcionism, just as much as anti-Semitism has a taproot in Marcionism. But if I don't stop here, this post will turn into a lengthy discussion on this particular heresy, so let's move forward. More to come in part 2. Perhaps a whole series on heresies is needed, but that may require a more focused mind than my own, like those who have already written books on it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whydidpetersink.com

Today, many Catholics as well as Christians of other denominations admire and enjoy Jewish traditions and rituals. But it hasn't always been that way. For centuries, Christians in different times, places, and cultures persecuted Jewish people, even to the point of forbidding the practice of Judaism.  In the Middle Ages, hateful rhetoric about Jewish people and the Jewish faith sometimes prompted pogroms––organized mob attacks––especially during the Christian Holy Week. In Catholic Spain, in the 15th century, Jews were forced to convert to Christianity, and those who refused to do so were expelled from their homes. In Europe in the 19th century, as the Jewish people gained greater freedom and political emancipation, new prejudices arose, including conspiracy theories about international Jewish cabals threatening Christian nations. While Christians were not the only groups who persecuted Jews, modern antisemitism has its seeds in the early church. And Christian acts of violence and injustice against Jewish people are especially shameful, given that Jesus, himself a Jew, taught nonviolence and radical inclusion. In light of this history, Catholics who are attracted to Jewish rituals such as the Passover Seder need to know not only what the church teaches about these practices, but also how Jewish people regard Christian celebrations of traditional Jewish feasts. On this episode of the podcast, hosts Emily Sanna and Rebecca Bratten Weiss talk to philosopher and interfaith scholar Joshua Stein about the history and significance of the Passover feast and whether Christians should host or celebrate their own Seder meals.  You can learn more about this topic and read some of Stein's work in the links below. “Should Catholics celebrate Passover?” by Joshua Stein https://uscatholic.org/articles/202304/should-catholics-celebrate-passover/ “What's a Jew to Do? Jewish-Christian dialogue today,” by Joshua Stein https://medium.com/@thephilosotroll/whats-a-jew-to-do-jewish-christian-dialogue-today-eada02c0d526 “Anti-Jewish readings of Scripture are not just a Holy Week problem,” by Philip A. Cunningham https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/anti-jewish-readings-scripture-are-not-just-holy-week-problem “What can we do about antisemitism and the Catholic literary canon?” by Rebecca Bratten Weiss https://uscatholic.org/articles/202101/what-can-we-do-about-antisemitism-and-the-catholic-literary-canon/ Questions about Jews and Judaism during the Easter Triduum https://www.usccb.org/prayer-worship/liturgical-year/triduum/questions-jews-judaism-triduum Nostra Aetate, Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Promulgated by Pope Paul VI https://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_ec21na.htm Glad You Asked is sponsored by the Claretian Missionaries. https://www.claretiansusa.org/  

In October of 1965, Pope Paul VI issued the first document in Catholic history to focus on the relationship between Catholics and Jews. The resulting declaration, "Nostra Aetate," meaning "In Our Times," was published worldwide to help erase over a thousand years of hatred. It would forever imprint change on the Catholic Church's relationship with the Jewish people. This week's podcast features a Focus On Israel episode where we focus the lens of history on the UN's passage of this historic document and its landmark effect on how it served to repudiate antisemitism and the charge that the Jewish people were collectively guilty of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

This week's podcast features a Focus On Israel episode where we take a closer look at Nostra Aetate, the formal document of the Catholic Church that decries hatred, persecution and displays of antisemitism against the Jewish people. In September of 1960, Pope John the 23rd asked that a decree be written defining the relationship between the Church and the Jews. The document was ultimately signed by Pope John Paul VI following its adaption in 1965. In this remarkable document, the Catholic Church acknowledged that the Jewish people are not responsible for the death of Jesus, citing the elimination of the deicide narrative, and recognizing that the Jewish covenant with God for the land of Israel has not been broken. It further states that Christianity sprang from Jewish roots and is inextricably intertwined with Judaism.

A disturbing trend over the past couple of years has been the rise of antisemitism. The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks antisemitic incidents, says 2021 was the worst year in decades and that 2022 will look similar once the numbers are tabulated. We're in a five-year upswing overall. Let's not give any more oxygen to acts of hate. Instead, we are thrilled to be sharing this conversation host Mike Jordan Laskey recently had with Dr. Phil Cunningham and Dr. Adam Gregerman, two scholars who have devoted their careers to building bridges between Jews and Catholics. Phil and Adam lead the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. The institute was founded in 1967 in response to the Second Vatican Council. Phil is Catholic and Adam is Jewish, and their shared leadership models the type of engagement the institute is all about. You'll see this sort of collaboration on display throughout the episode. Mike asked them for a brief historical overview of the relationship between Catholics and Jews, and why the promulgation of the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate was such an important turning point. Adam and Phil also talked about the work they're doing today, and how we can build relationships across religious divides without erasing each faith's uniqueness. Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations: https://www.sju.edu/college-arts-and-sciences/ijcr Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations: https://ccjr.us/ AMDG is a production of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. www.jesuits.org/ www.beajesuit.org/ twitter.com/jesuitnews facebook.com/Jesuits instagram.com/wearethejesuits youtube.com/societyofjesus

En este episodio BONUS nos salimos de la filosofía, que es aquello de lo que tratamos esencialmente en este podcast, para hacer una breve incursión en la teología, en particular, en la eclesiología, para tratar el tema de magisterio, que, en nuestra estimación, es particularmente relevante hoy en día si uno quiere permanecer católico y cuerdo. Mucho polémica rodea al papa y a los obispos hoy en día, muchas acusaciones se lanzan contra los pastores de la Iglesia en las redes sociales. Algunos incluso acusan al Romano Pontífice de herejía. Y la pregunta aparece, ¿en que medida debo asentir al magisterio del papa y de los obispos? Y esto es lo que discutimos en este episodio apoyandonos en un documento sumamente valioso de la entonces Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe escrito por su entonces prefecto, el cardenal Joseph Ratzinger, futuro papa Benedicto XVI. El documento explica los distintos tipos de doctrinas de la iglesia y el distinto grado de asentimiento que se debe prestar a cada uno. En el episodio hacemos constante referencia al "primer párrafo", "segundo parráfo" y "tercer párrafo", con esto nos referimos a la profesión de fe promulagada por Juan Pablo II, aquí los citamos para su referencia: "Creo, también, con fe firme, todo aquello que se contiene en la Palabra de Dios escrita o transmitida por la Tradición, y que la Iglesia propone para ser creído, como divinamente revelado, mediante un juicio solemne o mediante el Magisterio ordinario y universal. Acepto y retengo firmemente, asimismo, todas y cada una de las cosas sobre la doctrina de la fe y las costumbres propuestas por la Iglesia de modo definitivo. Me adhiero, además, con religioso obsequio de voluntad y entendimiento a las doctrinas enunciadas por el Romano Pontífice o por el Colegio de los Obispos cuando ejercen el Magisterio auténtico, aunque no tengan la intención de proclamarlas con un acto definitivo." Lecturas fuertemente recomendadas: Lumen Gentium 25 Nota doctrinal ilustrativa de la fórmula conclusiva de la Professio fidei https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_1998_professio-fidei_sp.html Otras lecturas: Donum veritatis Tuas libenter Lumen Gentium entera Pastos Aeternus Humani Generis Fe de erratas: Cuando hablamos de la controversia de la libertad religiosa, el documento del Concilio que trata el tema no es Nostra Aetate como dijimos en el episodio sino Dignitatis Humanae Blog: deveritate.substack.com Instagram: @de.veritate Twitter: @deveritate1 Music: Behind the Sword by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The legacy of Christian anti-Semitism is not a happy one. Early in the history of Christianity, as the religion grew, the persecution of Jews became a normal feature of life in Christian lands. By the Middle Ages, the Jewish people were subject to dislocation, alienation, psychological torment, violence, and torture—all with the approval, and at times the official encouragement, of church authorities. Even in modern times, religiously inflected anti-Semitism has been an unavoidable part of the relations between the two religions. Is that still the case? Perhaps not. Relations between global Christianity and the Jewish people are fundamentally different than they have been. In part this is because of one document: the Vatican's Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, more commonly known by the Latin words with which it begins, Nostra Aetate, “In our time.” Nostra Aetate was promulgated at the ecumenical council called by Pope John XXIII known as the Second Vatican Council, only the 21st such council to have been convened in the nearly two millennia of the Catholic church. This month marks the 60th anniversary of its being convened. To help us understand what the Second Vatican Council was about, and its effects today, Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver speaks with one of the most incisive analysts of Catholicism: the author George Weigel. This week marks the publication of his new book about the Second Vatican Council, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II, an excerpt from which was featured in the Wall Street Journal this month under the title “What Vatican II Accomplished.” Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.

Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Montse Alvarado on Vatican II's shortest document on the relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions. Montse joined the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in 2009 and was named VP & Executive Director in February 2017. With a background in public policy and campaigns, she has led initiatives at Becket in development, communications, strategy and operations that have helped secure religious liberty victories against the contraceptive mandate, protect the rights of churches to choose their leaders, and safeguard the free speech of crisis pregnancy centers and religious groups on campus. She was profiled by the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Edition with the following introduction: “A defender of all religion, on the front lines of America's culture wars.”Montse has a Masters from the George Washington University and a B.A. from Florida International University. She served on the Montgomery County Commission for Women in Maryland and is currently on the board of the Patients' Rights Action Fund, the leading advocate against the legalization of assisted suicide; a lay consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Religious Liberty Committee; a member of the President's Advisory Counsel of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students; on the advisory council to the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR) and the GIVEN Institute; and on the Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board for the Philos Project. Although not an attorney, she “plays one on TV” advocating for Becket clients on major television and radio networks including Univision, CNN en Español, Telemundo, Fox Business, and EWTN. Born in Mexico City, she is fluent in Spanish and French and is a competitive jazz and classical vocalist.To access this document: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html To read a blog post on the question of "Do Catholics, Jews, and Muslims worship the same God?:" http://shamelesspopery.com/muslims-jews-christians/ To view the study guide page for the Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: https://www.endowgroups.org/study-guide-light-of-the-nations-lumen-gentium/ Support the Endow PodcastWhat's on your mind and heart? Let our host, Simone Rizkallah, know by connecting with her and The Endow Team on social media!Facebook at www.facebook.com/endowgroupsInstagram at www.instagram.com/endowgroupsWant to start your own Endow Group? Learn more by visiting our website at www.endowgroups.org or reach out to us at info@endowgroups.org. We look forward to serving you!

Ever wonder what the Church says about other religions? Today we discuss what the Church says about the truths that exist in other religions and how we should act toward people of different faiths. It is not a long read at all; check it out! https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html

This week's podcast features a Focus On Israel broadcast that calls attention to the landmark document that repudiated antisemitism and the charge that the Jewish people were collectively guilty for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In September of 1960, Pope John the 23rd tasked Cardinal Austin Bea to compose a decree on the relationship between the Church and the Jewish people. Five years later, the resulting declaration, "Nostra Aetate" (translated as "In Our Times" would be issued to help erase over a thousand years of hatred. It would forever imprint change and bring the accord of peace to the Catholic Church's relationship with the Jewish people. Listen and learn from this week's eye-opening broadcast!

Serie: SALID DE BABILONIA (parte 9)SB9. RELIGIÓN MUNDIAL* Definición de RELIGION* Contraste con una RELACION PERSONAL CON DIOS, que es lo que la Biblia invita. * Movimiento COEXIST: diálogo y coexistencia entre las religiones del mundo* Rol de la Iglesia Católica en promover el diálogo interreligioso, como base para la formación de una religión mundial (Declaración Nostra Aetate, Día de oración multireligiosa @ Asis y @ NY, Acuerdo de Fraternidad Humana, aceptación de ritos paganos en el Sínodo de Amazonia, participación de religiosos en el tema ambientalista* Unificación de todas las religiones en una RELIGION MUNDIAL, promoviendo tolerancia a todas las creencias. ..........Redactado y narrado por: Ana Beatriz ContrerasBlog Cita Divinawww.citadivina.blogspot.com Canal en Telegram: Cita DivinaTambién en AUDIO @ Spotify y PodcastsCanal: Cita DivinaShow: Estudio Biblia

Jesus (as): Love, Dialogue & Nostra Aetate

Questions Covered: 08:06 – How much weight do regional councils hold, especially when looking back at history?  16:30 – If St Peter was martyred, how was he supposed to have laid hands on Pope Linus?  24:00 – How do we reconcile 1 John “Whoever denies Jesus denies the Father” with claims that Jews and Muslims worship the same God in Nostra Aetate?  37:03 – I recently had a lot of spiritual healings through Reiki done and I want to start developing my relationship with Jesus further. How do I deepen this relationship?  48:55 – In the Sacred Heart of Jesus Novena, there's a line in the prayer that says that Mary is our Salvation. How do I explain this?  53:13 – What does the following phrase mean: God from God, light from light, True God from True God?  …

Live sobre o Cardeal Bea e o seu envolvimento com o American Jewish Committee, que levou à elaboração do desastroso documento Nostra Aetate. Links e Materiais usados: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o6KiYeYVLR1k-fREh2wMSH-pLUPRY-dS?usp=sharing

"Proemio1. En nuestra época, en la que el género humano se une cada vez más estrechamente y aumentan los vínculos entre los diversos pueblos, la Iglesia considera con mayor atención en qué consiste su relación con respecto a las religiones no cristianas. En cumplimiento de su misión de fundamentar la Unidad y la Caridad entre los hombres y, aún más, entre los pueblos, considera aquí, ante todo, aquello que es común a los hombres y que conduce a la mutua solidaridad.Todos los pueblos forman una comunidad, tienen un mismo origen, puesto que Dios hizo habitar a todo el género humano sobre la faz de la tierra, y tienen también un fin último, que es Dios, cuya providencia, manifestación de bondad y designios de salvación se extienden a todos, hasta que se unan los elegidos en la ciudad santa, que será iluminada por el resplandor de Dios y en la que los pueblos caminarán bajo su luz...."

"Contro l'antisemitismo non sono sufficienti dichiarazioni sbrigative e spesso retoriche. L'antisemitismo lo si combatte, prima di tutto, facendo conoscere l'ebraismo”. È la filosofia che anima da anni l'impegno di Marco Cassuto Morselli, il presidente della Federazione delle Amicizie Ebraico-Cristiane. Per questo organismo e per tutti i cultori del Dialogo l'edizione da poco conclusasi dei Colloqui di Camaldoli ha rappresentato “la conferma della bontà del cammino intrapreso dalla dichiarazione Nostra Aetate in poi”. 

Eric speaks with historian Tal Howard about Tal's new book, The Faith of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue (Yale University Press, 2021). They cover Tal's background with the study of history and then embark on the book's three main case studies of interreligious dialogue: Chicago's World Parliament of Religions in 1893, London's Conference on Some Living Religions within the Empire in 1924, and Vatican II's Nostra Aetate in 1965. Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard is Professor of Humanities and History and holder of the Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, where he is affiliated with Christ College, Valparaiso's interdisciplinary honors college. He also serves as Senior Fellow for the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age (Oxford, 2017). As an additional recommended reading with upper House connections, see Charles Cohen's The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020). Chuck spoke about his book at Upper House in February 2020. The audio for that talk is available here. As always we invite you to leave us a rating on your favorite podcast app or send us a comment at podcast@slbrownfoundation.org. Credits: music by Micah Behr, audio engineering by Andy Johnson, graphic design by Madeline Ramsey.

Thanks for tuning in! Here's what we covered on today's episode: -What is the Catholic mass? Different types and rites. Isn't Latin a dead language? -Daniel's commentary and observations on the Latin Mass we attended recently -The Council of Trent -The Second Vatican Council -Comparing Latin and Novus Ordo masses -Why is Vatican II so controversial? -Factions within the Catholic Church today and the crisis in the West -How should a faithful Catholic respond? -Pope Francis' motu proprio and public response -What will be the future of the Roman rite? OUR LINKS: Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdbF... BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/channel/T667... Twitter @sonsofantiquity Gab @sonsofantiquity Email sonsofantiquitypodcast@gmail.com Facebook Sons of Antiquity Apple Podcasts Sons of Antiquity SOURCES: “Part Two, Section Two, Chapter One, Article 3: The Sacrament of the Eucharist.” Catechism of the Catholic Church: Includes Modifications from the Editio Typica, Doubleday, 1995. Eastern Catholic rites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholi... The Council of Trent https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/ar... Protestants https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Luth... The Second Vatican Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_... Demographic Trends since VII: https://cara.georgetown.edu/frequentl... Lumen Gentium: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_c... Nostra Aetate: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_c... Dignitatis Humanae: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_c... Videos on Vatican II: Declue's Views: https://youtu.be/KeQenCC8iQo Reason & Theology: https://youtu.be/JmEpTAvOLhs Timothy Gordon: https://youtu.be/0m8WDggcuxA Pints With Aquinas: https://youtu.be/VZc8lrqzjHY Bishop Robert Barron: https://youtu.be/m8j24FBRgrA Stats on Religion in America: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1690/rel... https://www.pewforum.org/religious-la... Summorum Pontificum: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedi... Traditionis Custodes: https://www.vatican.va/content/france... Canon Law Made Easy on TC: https://canonlawmadeeasy.com/2021/07/... Fr. Ripperger on Problems in Traditionalist Movement: https://www.tumblarhouse.com/blogs/ne...

"Comfort my people and console them,     says your God.  Speak tenderly to Jerusalem     and proclaim to her that her time of servitude is over     and that her guilt has been expiated."-Isaiah 40:1-2 In this episode, the Trad Men examine Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the relation of the Church to the non-Christian religions.  While this short document addresses religions such as Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism, the document's main focus is the intimate and, at times painful, history between the Catholic Church and the Jews.  Being afraid of no controversy, the Trad Men jump in with both feet!   Be sure to like and subscribe so you'll be notified as soon as a new Trad Men episode drops!  Don't forget to follow us on Twitter @Trad_Men and if you feel like reaching out, send us an email at tradmenpodcast@gmail.com. PAX DOMINI SIT SEMPER VOBISCVM!

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Today's Topics: 1) Finding the Fallacy: Wishful Thinking Meet the Early Church Fathers: Apostolic Constitution 2, 3, 4) Interview  

Questions Covered: 12:15 – Why do Catholics abstain from meat and fast on Fridays?  15:21 – Who rules over purgatory?  17:01 – What are the Catholic arguments for the existence of God?  29:11 – Why does the Catholic Church not allow the spreading of a deceased person’s ashes?  36:45 – What does the phrase “the sacrifice of the Mass” mean?  43:35 – What does the Catholic Church teach about unbaptized persons and purgatory and salvation?  48:35 – Why does the Church use the phrase “like the dewfall” in the 2nd version of the Eucharistic prayer?   50:43 – Why does the second paragraph of Nostra Aetate, from Vatican II, say that Buddhists can attain perfection?   Resources Mentioned: 5 Proofs of the Existence of God by Ed Fesser Aquinas’s Way to God …

Join our guest, Sister Clara Stang, as she tells of her roots on the family farm flowering into wings of experiences ranging from rural communities in Tennessee to dialogue across religious traditions.   Sister Clara notes: “I want to celebrate the goodness that God has given us and to invite more people to see that beauty and to become part of it.... Look for the good, look for the beauty. Sometimes I think those things that divide get too much attention and they kind of eat up who we are eventually or take first place. And that's not the way God would like it to be. God created the world as good, created all people as good. We need to ask God to help us to see and to be grateful for that.”   References:   What was Vatican II? See five-minute video about the Council by Franciscan friar Casey Cole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyVq1hnxAqg. Sixteen documents were promulgated: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/16-documents-of-the-second-vatican-council-1509. See also Episode 6.   Saints Francis and Clare of Assisi: Co-founders of the Franciscan family: https://www.fslf.org/OurHistory/#FrancisofAssisiandtheFranciscanFirstOrder.   English as a second language and more: Hands Across the World: Sister Tonie Rausch and Brianda Cediel co-founded this initiative where Sister Clara volunteered: https://www.handsacrosstheworldmn.org/copy-of-contact-1. Brianda will be our guest in Episode 11.   My Neighbor is Muslim: This program has been used in various communities in Minnesota and has served to build bridges of understanding among Christian and Muslim neighbors: https://www.lssmn.org/get-involved/church-partnerships/resources/studies/my-neighbor-is-muslim.   Saint Francis and the Sultan: For informative articles in honor of the 800th Anniversary of this visit, see: https://ofm.org/blog/st-francis-and-the-sultan-1219-2019-a-commemorative-booklet/. See also Episode 6.   Nostra Aetate, Inter-faith relations document from Vatican II. The Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions: http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html.   Romans 12:2 Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect

This week Tara and Jerry sit down with Rev. Guy Selvester, diocesan director of the Office of Ecumenical & Interfaith Affairs to shed light on the Second Vatican Council's document 'Nostra Aetate' as the Church marks the 55th Anniversary of its declaration on the relation of the Church to non-christian religions.   Rev. Guy Selvester also serves as Pastor at St. Joseph Church in Washington, NJ. 

The Catholic Church and Jewish community leaders have recently marked the 55th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council document on relations between the Church and non-Christian religions. At the same time, a disturbing report into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party has been published. The Equality and Human Rights Commission found the party responsible for 'unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination'. Archbishop Kevin McDonald, chair of the bishops' committee for Catholic-Jewish relations, discusses some of the issues surrounding these events as faith leaders prepare to mark the next Holocaust Memorial Day in January. Catch all recent Tablet podcasts on our website here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-tablet/message

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Il 55esimo anniversario della dichiarazione Nostra Aetate è stata l'occasione di uno scambio di messaggi tra il cardinale Kurt Koch, presidente della Commissione per i rapporti religiosi con gli ebrei della Santa Sede, e Noam Marans, esponente dell'American Jewish Committee dal 2019 a capo dello International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations. “Senza ombra di dubbio – il pensiero esplicitato da Koch nel suo intervento – la Nostra Aetate ha gettato le basi per un nuovo rapporto tra cattolici ed ebrei. Può quindi essere considerata la Magna Charta delle nostre relazioni”.

Can people from other religions be saved? If faith in Christ and Baptism are necessary for salvation, then what about those who have never heard the Gospel or been baptized? We are only saved by Jesus and through his life, death, and Resurrection, but can God work outside of the normal means of the sacraments to allow others to enter into the mystery of Christ without an explicit faith in Christ? If others can be saved, then why evangelize?  Church documents referenced: Lumen Gentium : https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html Dominus Iesus : http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html Nostra Aetate : https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html

In this episode of The Open Door, co-hosts Jim Hanink and Mario Ramos-Reyes interview Lawrence Feingold concerning the Association of Hebrew Catholics. 1. Can you please help us understand the significance of Vatican Council II's Nostra Aetate?2. What is the Scriptural context for speaking of the irrevocable calling of the people ofIsrael?3. What is the Association of Hebrew Catholics?4. Is there a place in the Association for members who do not have a Jewish background?5. Can you tell us about the distinctive liturgical practices of some Association members?6. Do you foresee a time when there would be a personal ordinariate for HebrewCatholics?7. How does the Association differ from Messianic Jews?8. What is a Havurah?9. Does the Association directly address the phenomenon of increasing anti-Semitism?10. You are delivering a series of lectures for the Association on the sacramental economy.Why did you choose this topic?11. How might we distinguish between proselytizing and evangelizing? How might Catholicsand Jews best witness to one another?12. Could you introduce our listeners to Alphonse Ratisbonne, Edith Stein, Elias Friedman,and Jean-Marie Lustiger?

Dr. Margarete Eirich

Pfr. Peter van Briel, Hopsten OT Halverde In dieser Sendung haben unsere Hörer die Möglichkeit, den Sprecher der Karl-Leisner-Jugend, Pfr. Peter van Briel zu all jenen Themen des Glaubens live zu befragen, die ihnen unverständlich oder widersprüchlich scheinen. Von Fragen zum Lehramt der katholischen Kirche, über Fragen zum Katechismus oder über persönliche Glaubenszweifel hinweg bis hin zu Fragen zur Liturgie: All diese Themen und viele mehr können von Ihnen in diesem Grundkurs des Glaubens thematisiert werden! In dieser Sendung thematisiert: "Neues Jerusalem" (Offb 3,12) Ismael und der "Engel der Verheißung" Was ist Sünde? Probleme mit dem Rosenkranzgebet Jeremia Geist, Seele, Körper Fürbittgebet, Opfer Erlösung, Heilswille, Erbsünde Erkenntnis der Wahrheit Inklusivismus, Nostra Aetate, 2. Vatikanisches Konzil Maria als Miterlöserin? Wiedergeburt und Reinkarnation im Christentum?

Father Lawrence Frizzell discusses St. John XXIII with Ms. Claire Maligot, a Ph.D. candidate from France who is at the Vatican II research centre in Bologna, Italy. She was a speaker in the session of the International Conference honoring Pope John XXIII in Jerusalem that focused on Nostra Aetate and the Second Vatican Council.

E. Michael Jones returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss Civilta Cattolica’s 1890 series of articles concerning the Jewish Question, Nostra Aetate and the role of Catholicism in the Culture War.

E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine, addresses emeritus Pope Benedict XVI's article in German in the July/August edition of Internationale Katholische Zeitschrift COMMUNIO ("Mercy and Mission without Regrets") and the resulting controversy, including accusations that Benedict was backtracking from prior statements on the Jews, such as the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate and a talk Pope John Paul II gave in Mainz Germany in 1980.

Nostra Aetate, the Catholic Church’s 1965 Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, was a watershed in the history of Jewish-Christian relations. It repudiated the slander of deicide and took a stand against anti-Semitism, and in so doing, opened the door to dialogue between Jews, Catholics, and Christians of many other denominations. Several decades later, a group of over 170 Jewish scholars offered what some saw as a kind of Jewish response to the titanic shift brought about by Nostra Aetate. Dabru Emet, “Speak the Truth,” set out a set of principles regarding how Jews and Christians might relate to one another and build a foundation for interfaith cooperation. Perhaps unsurprisingly, not all Jewish scholars could get behind the statement. In “How Not to Conduct Jewish-Christian Dialogue,” published in Commentary, and “Judaism Addresses Christianity,” published in Jacob Neusner’s Religious Foundations of Western Civilization, Professor Jon Levenson of Harvard University raises serious concerns with the planks of Dabru Emet. If interfaith dialogue is to have real meaning, Levenson argues, it cannot paper over irreconcilable religious differences or flatten religious conviction in order to create a veneer of agreement. In this podcast, Levenson sits down with Tikvah’s Alan Rubenstein to discuss the dangers and opportunities posed by Jewish-Christian dialogue. They explore the purpose of interfaith discourse, the importance of the theological disagreements between Jews and Christians, and the dangers of suppressing religious disagreement in the name of cooperation. Professor Levenson demonstrates how Jews can enthusiastically embrace the importance of religious dialogue with Christians while remaining true to what makes Jews different. Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble as well as “Baruch Habah,” performed by the choir of Congregation Shearith Israel. This podcast was recorded in front of a live audience at the Abigail Adams Institute at Harvard University. Jon Levenson is a member of the Tikvah Summer Institute faculty. Click here to learn more about our Institutes and other summer programs.

This special three hour show on Vatican II originally aired on October 20, 2012. In this month's episode of the Flagship Show, we present a 3 hour in-depth forensic investigation into the Second Vatican Council, the heresies contained within it, and the Catholic reaction to it. This show was graciously sponsored and brought to our listeners free-of-charge by Novus Ordo Watch. Some Catholics believe that the answer to all our present ills lies in the "problem of the Pope." They will even host entire conferences on such a topic, thinking that the answer to the question of the Pope is the answer to everything; This is only partly true. The event that hatched an entire line of questionable claimants to the Papacy was the Second Vatican Council. This Council has many troublesome documents, which, even more troublingly, many Catholics, even those purporting to be "Traditional," denounce but have never even read. During this special 3-hour show with His Excellency, Bishop Donald Sanborn, we will discuss 6 documents from the Council, problems with those documents, and the implications for Catholics today. Those documents include: Nostra Aetate, Dignitatis Humanae, Unitatis Redintegratio, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Gaudium et Spes, and Lumen Gentium. For those unfamiliar with Bishop Donald Sanborn, he is the Rector of Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida, and was the first seminary rector for the SSPX in the United States of America in the early 1980s. Episode Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch http://novusordowatch.org/ Season 1 Sponsor: Anonymous Benefactor in Honor of Sts. Thomas Aquinas & Teresa of Avila Original Air Date: October 20, 2012 Show Run Time: 3 hours Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner, Nicholas Wansbutter, Dr. Piers Hugill Episode page: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-i-episode-13-the-second-vatican-council/ Transcript: https://www.truerestoration.org/press/transcript-vatican-ii-the-documents-examined-pdf-download/ The Flagship Show: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/the-flagship-show/ Become a member: https://www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ The Flagship Show℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2012. All Rights are Reserved.

Father Lawrence Frizzell and Irmina Czapiewska, the Institute's Graduate Assistant,talk about the new Orthodox Jewish response to "Nostra Aetate"

In this week's episode, we share a presentation by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York. As part of PC's Theological Exchange Between Catholics and Jews, Cardinal Dolan presented “Jewish-Catholic Dialogue: 2,000 Years but Just Beginning,” to a full house at St. Dominic Chapel. He discussed Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council document that opened relations between the Catholic church and non-Christian religions. Cardinal Dolan's sense of humor and insight did not disappoint. We hope you enjoy his presentation.

Get ready for the newest podcast episode! As Season 2 moves along, we welcome John Borelli to the microphone. In his conversation with Stephen Okey, Dr. Borelli talks about how being drafted into the Vietnam War set him on the path to studying comparative theology, the positive impact of ecumenical and interreligious dialogues on his own Catholic faith, and what he thinks will be important for engaging Nostra Aetate in the next fifty years.  Dr. John Borelli is the Special Assistant to the President for Interreligious Initiatives atGeorgetown University. He previously served as the associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the USCCB. He earned his BA in Philosophy fromSaint Louis University and his PhD in History of Religions and Theology from Fordham University. He is an internationally recognized expert on interreligious dialogue. He was the editor of The Quest for Unity: Orthodox and Catholics in Dialogue : Documents of the Joint International Commission and Official Dialogues in the United States, 1965-1995 (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1996) and co-author (along with Michael L. Fitzgerald) ofInterfaith Dialogue: A Catholic View (Orbis, 2006). Special thanks go to Dr. Matthew Tapie of the Center for Catholic Jewish Studies at Saint Leo University, who made this conversation possible.

It is 50 years since the publication of the Vatican document 'Nostra Aetate' which transformed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and other religions, most notably Judaism. At only a few paragraphs in length, this short text has been widely seen as one of the most remarkable moments in the turbulent history of interfaith relations. How did it come about? What can we say it has really achieved? And how does it fit into the world in which we now live? Ernie Rea explores the impact of 'Nostra Aetate' with Archbishop Kevin McDonald, Emeritus Catholic Archbishop of Southwark and chair of the Bishops' Conference Committee for Other Faiths and of the Committee for Catholic-Jewish Relations; Dr Ed Kessler, Founder-Director of the interfaith organisation, the Woolf Institute; and Oliver McTernan, Director of the conflict-resolution charity 'Forward Thinking', which works among communities in the UK and the Middle East. Producer: Amanda Hancox.

It is 50 years since the publication of the Vatican document 'Nostra Aetate' which transformed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and other religions, most notably Judaism. At only a few paragraphs in length, this short text has been widely seen as one of the most remarkable moments in the turbulent history of interfaith relations. How did it come about? What can we say it has really achieved? And how does it fit into the world in which we now live? Ernie Rea explores the impact of 'Nostra Aetate' with Archbishop Kevin McDonald, Emeritus Catholic Archbishop of Southwark and chair of the Bishops' Conference Committee for Other Faiths and of the Committee for Catholic-Jewish Relations; Dr Ed Kessler, Founder-Director of the interfaith organisation, the Woolf Institute; and Oliver McTernan, Director of the conflict-resolution charity 'Forward Thinking', which works among communities in the UK and the Middle East. Producer: Amanda Hancox.

Le père Thierry Vernet, codirecteur du département « Judaïsme Christianisme », aborde notamment les 50 ans de Nostra Aetate. Émission du 10 novembre 2015

Father Lawrence Frizzell and Dr. John Borelli, Special Assistant for Interreligious Initiatives for the Presi-dent of Georgetown University, discuss various aspects of the history of "Nostra Aetate" (Latin: "In Our Time").

Un rinnovato abbraccio tra i due fratelli da Nostra Aetate ad oggiTrascrizione (non corretta dall'autore)

Please join host Frankie Picasso on Thursday, October 22nd at 1:00 pm EST as she goes on a Mission Unstoppable with guest Lucia Weitzman a child survivor of the holocaust. As Hitlers armies began to gather up the Polish Jews, Lucia’s parents feared for her safety and rightly so. In their attempt to escape, they decided it best to leave Lucia behind, hidden in plain site. They gave her to a childless Polish Catholic couple to raise as their own, always hoping that they might meet again after the war, but Poland was hardest hit by the Nazis. There were no survivors left behind. Lucia was born in Bochnia, Poland in 1940. Her Jewish parents perished in the Holocaust and Lucia was raised in the Catholic Church by her adopted parents the Swiateks. Lucia loved the church and had deep and spiritual faith. When she learned that she too was a Jew, she really had no idea what that meant, beyond knowing that everyone hated the Jews. As she grew older, Lucia began suffering anti semitism as a lone Jew in Bochnia, and eventually concluded that she would never be able to marry or have children if she stayed. After escaping detention by Communist authorities in 1961, she immigrated to the United States and married Herman Weitzman, a Holocaust survivor and businessman raised in a traditional Jewish family Lucia’s life has been documented in her new book The Rose Temple , written by her son Mitchell, which tells an incredible tale of survival, loss, and a love for God that would spur a spiritual search  across the world , not once but several times as she sought answers to life’s most pressing questions.

Please join host Frankie Picasso on Thursday, October 22nd at 1:00 pm EST as she goes on a Mission Unstoppable with guest Lucia Weitzman a child survivor of the holocaust. As Hitlers armies began to gather up the Polish Jews, Lucia’s parents feared for her safety and rightly so. In their attempt to escape, they decided it best to leave Lucia behind, hidden in plain site. They gave her to a childless Polish Catholic couple to raise as their own, always hoping that they might meet again after the war, but Poland was hardest hit by the Nazis. There were no survivors left behind. Lucia was born in Bochnia, Poland in 1940. Her Jewish parents perished in the Holocaust and Lucia was raised in the Catholic Church by her adopted parents the Swiateks. Lucia loved the church and had deep and spiritual faith. When she learned that she too was a Jew, she really had no idea what that meant, beyond knowing that everyone hated the Jews. As she grew older, Lucia began suffering anti semitism as a lone Jew in Bochnia, and eventually concluded that she would never be able to marry or have children if she stayed. After escaping detention by Communist authorities in 1961, she immigrated to the United States and married Herman Weitzman, a Holocaust survivor and businessman raised in a traditional Jewish family Lucia’s life has been documented in her new book The Rose Temple , written by her son Mitchell, which tells an incredible tale of survival, loss, and a love for God that would spur a spiritual search  across the world , not once but several times as she sought answers to life’s most pressing questions.

Please join host Frankie Picasso on Thursday, October 22nd at 1:00 pm EST as she goes on a Mission Unstoppable with guest Lucia Weitzman a child survivor of the holocaust.As Hitlers armies began to gather up the Polish Jews, Lucia’s parents feared for her safety and rightly so. In their attempt to escape, they decided it best to leave Lucia behind, hidden in plain site. They gave her to a childless Polish Catholic couple to raise as their own, always hoping that they might meet again after the war, but Poland was hardest hit by the Nazis. There were no survivors left behind.Lucia was born in Bochnia, Poland in 1940. Her Jewish parents perished in the Holocaust and Lucia was raised in the Catholic Church by her adopted parents the Swiateks. Lucia loved the church and had deep and spiritual faith. When she learned that she too was a Jew, she really had no idea what that meant, beyond knowing that everyone hated the Jews. As she grew older, Lucia began suffering anti semitism as a lone Jew in Bochnia, and eventually concluded that she would never be able to marry or have children if she stayed. After escaping detention by Communist authorities in 1961, she immigrated to the United States and married Herman Weitzman, a Holocaust survivor and businessman raised in a traditional Jewish familyLucia’s life has been documented in her new book The Rose Temple , written by her son Mitchell, which tells an incredible tale of survival, loss, and a love for God that would spur a spiritual search  across the world , not once but several times as she sought answers to life’s most pressing questions.

Today's Guest: Jim Barrens, author “In Our Time (Nostra Aetate): How Catholics and Jews Built a New Relationship."Order “In Our Time (Nostra Aetate): How Catholics and Jews Built a New Relationship” by Jim Barrens: http://amzn.to/1NZPzXE JIM BARRENS podcast excerpt: “It’s new in our lifetimes to see a Pope like Francis; maybe it’s new in forever.”Key Interview Moments:• 4:05 How Jim Barrens became interested in Declaration Nostra Aetate;• 11:05 Pope John XXIII sets forth to repair 2,000 years of a sour relationship between Catholics and Jews in Vatican II;• 17:00 The unique views and actions of Pope Francis.Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm of Charlie Rose, the curiosity of Terry Gross and the unpredictability of Howard Stern! Since February 2007, more than 1,000 exclusive Hollywood, celebrity, pop culture video and audio comedy podcast interviews by Mr. Media®, a.k.a., Bob Andelman, with newsmakers in TV, radio, movies, music, magazines, newspapers, books, websites, social media, politics, sports, graphic novels, and comics! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/andelmanFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/MrMediaRadio

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Today's Guest: Jim Barrens, author In Our Time (Nostra Aetate): How Catholics and Jews Built a New Relationship. INTERVIEW Jim Barrens, author, In Our Time... by andelman  Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with JIM BARRENS by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of true believers of multiple religions who all agree with John Lennon: Give peace a chance… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Like a smart lawyer, I rarely enter the professional arena without knowing everything I can about the subject at hand. Except today. I’m just being honest: When it comes to understanding the conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate – translated from Latin, it means “in our time” – it’s a little beyond me. JIM BARRENS podcast excerpt: "The Roman Catholic Church is involved in about 2,000 years of a very negative relationship with the Jewish people. After World War II and in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the founding of the state of Israel, there was a great yearning by the world community to do something about the terrible things that had happened. In the late 1950s and early '60s, Pope John XXIII called the Church to a council -- the Second Vatican Council. His whole idea was to update the Church... Pope John together prominent Catholics and quite a few Jews as well to say, 'We want to deal with the problem of our relationship with the Jewish people." You can LISTEN to this interview with JIM BARRENS, author of IN OUR TIME (NOSTRA AETATE): How Catholics and Jews Built a New Relationship, by clicking the audio player above! I know that October 28, 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the official move by Pope John XXIII at Vatican II to improve relations between Jewish and Catholic communities around the world. I know that its good intentions have largely succeeded. JIM BARRENS podcast excerpt: "I was born and raised Roman Catholic. I was an altar boy. My parents were very devout. I learned the Latin when we had to. When I listened to the Gospel stories, I was forever interested in the historical aspects. I was very curious, which led me to have an interest in Judaism at a very early age. I was always looking at where Judaism and Christianity met." And I know that Pope Francis feels strongly about celebrating the importance of the Declaration Nostra Aetate. To fill in the large gaps in my knowledge, I have called on my friend Jim Barrens to step up and explain it all. Barrens is the author of In Our Time (Nostra Aetate), which details the history and development of Declaration Nostra Aetate. (In the interests of full disclosure, I will tell you that In Our Time (Nostra Aetate) by Jim Barrens was published by Mr. Media® Books, a subsidiary of Mr. Media® Interviews.) Key interview moments: • 4:05 How Jim Barrens became interested in Declaration Nostra Aetate; • 11:05 Pope John XXIII sets forth to repair 2,000 years of a sour relationship between Catholics and Jews in Vatican II; • 17:00 The unique views and actions of Pope Francis; Jim Barrens The Justice Factory Website • Facebook • Twitter The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland! The post Nostra Aetate changed lives of Catholics and Jews! VIDEO INTERVIEW appeared first on Mr. Media.

Father Frizzell discusses the importance and content of the "Celebration of Nostra Aetate," a three-day symposium that took place at The Catholic University of America May 19-21, 2015.

Father Frizzell discusses the importance and content of the "Celebration of Nostra Aetate," a three-day symposium that took place at The Catholic University of America May 19-21, 2015.

Father Lawrence Frizzell discusses his participation in "'Nostra Aetate": Celebrating Fifty Years of the Catholic Church's Dialogue with Jews and Muslims," a conference celebrating interreligious friendship and dialogue that was hosted by The Catholic University of America from May 19-21, 2015.

Father Lawrence Frizzell discusses his participation in "'Nostra Aetate": Celebrating Fifty Years of the Catholic Church's Dialogue with Jews and Muslims," a conference celebrating interreligious friendship and dialogue that was hosted by The Catholic University of America from May 19-21, 2015.

Bishop Conlon talks about Vatican II Council's Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council: Nostra Aetate ("In Our Age"). The declaration addresses people who belong to world religions. Historically, we Catholics have proclaimed the Gospel and invited people from other religions to see Jesus as Lord and Savior. We looked at people who belong to other world religions as objects of conversion. But, the Vatican II Council bishops wrote that we need to look at them as people who have been given as grace of faith. They share a belief in God, and that belief is to be respected. The bishops mention Hinduism and Buddhism, and the Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. They often have a ray, a truth, that enlightens all men. But the Church proclaims Christ as the way, the truth and the light. It is important that the Church enters into collaborations and discussions with other religions to try for mutual understanding.

Bishop Conlon talks about Vatican II Council's Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council: Nostra Aetate ("In Our Age"). It’s a short document. The bishops understand that the world is a global village, and that the Church exists in the larger world. The Church is engaged in the world. Men look to religion to solve the riddles and major questions of life, the bishops said. Bishop Conlon said there are far fewer people asking these questions and far fewer finding the answers in a personal God. Thus, the place of religion in human society has changed in the past 50 years.

A public lecture at the University of Notre Dame by Archbishop Zycinski, the Archbishop of Lublin, Poland on November 1, 2006.

A public lecture at the University of Notre Dame by Archbishop Zycinski, the Archbishop of Lublin, Poland on November 1, 2006.