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This section presents the official documents of the Catholic Church concerning Judaism and the Jewish people.

See also the homepage of the Commission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews for more links and documents. 

The Gifts and the Calling of God are Irrevocable

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Written by: Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews
Category: Church Documents
Created: 10 December 2015
Vatican

Fifty years ago, the declaration "Nostra aetate" of the Second Vatican Council was promulgated, presenting the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people in a new theological framework. The following reflections aim at looking back with gratitude on all that has been achieved over the last decades in the Jewish–Catholic relationship, providing at the same time a new stimulus for the future.

Read more: The Gifts and the Calling of God are Irrevocable

From the Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini

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Written by: Pope Benedict XVI
Category: Church Documents
Created: 30 September 2010
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Benedict XVI
  • Catholicism
  • Church Documents
Pope Benedict at the Wailing Wall

"Having considered the close relationship between the New Testament and the Old, we now naturally turn to the special bond which that relationship has engendered between Christians and Jews, a bond that must never be overlooked. Pope John Paul II, speaking to Jews, called them "our 'beloved brothers' in the faith of Abraham, our Patriarch."

Read more: From the Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini

The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible

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Written by: Pontifical Biblical Commission
Category: Church Documents
Created: 24 May 2001
  • Judaism
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Catholicism
  • Church Documents
Vatican

"The Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one, in continuity with the Jewish Sacred Scriptures from the Second Temple period... Christians can...  learn much from Jewish exegesis practised for more than two thousand years, and, in fact, they have learned much in the course of history."

Read more: The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible

Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past

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Written by: International Theological Commission
Category: Church Documents
Created: 01 December 1999
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Church
  • Church Documents
Vatican

"The hostility or diffidence of numerous Christians toward Jews in the course of time is a sad historical fact and is the cause of profound remorse for Christians aware of the fact that “Jesus was a descendent of David; that the Virgin Mary and the Apostles belonged to the Jewish people; that the Church draws sustenance from the root of that good olive tree onto which have been grafted the wild olive branches of the Gentiles; that the Jews are our dearly beloved brothers, indeed in a certain sense they are ‘our elder brothers.’”

Read more: Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past

We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah

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Written by: Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews
Category: Church Documents
Created: 16 March 1998
  • Holocaust
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Church Documents
Vatican

"At the end of this Millennium the Catholic Church desires to express her deep sorrow for the failures of her sons and daughters in every age. This is an act of repentance (teshuva), since, as members of the Church, we are linked to the sins as well as the merits of all her children."

Read more: We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah

Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church

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Written by: Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews
Category: Church Documents
Created: 14 June 1985
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Church
  • Church Documents
Vatican

"The permanence of Israel (while so many ancient peoples have disappeared without trace) is a historic fact and a sign to be interpreted within God's design."

Read more: Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman...

Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration "Nostra Aetate" (n. 4)

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Written by: Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews
Category: Church Documents
Created: 30 November 1974
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Church
  • Church Documents
Vatican

"Christians must strive to acquire a better knowledge of the basic components of the religious tradition of Judaism."

Read more: Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration "Nostra Aetate" (n. 4)

Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate 4

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Written by: Second Vatican Council
Category: Church Documents
Created: 27 October 1965
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Church
  • Church Documents
Vatican

"God holds the Jews most dear for the sake of their Fathers; He does not repent of the gifts He makes or of the calls He issues-such is the witness of the Apostle."

Read more: Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate 4

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