Catholics Stand with Israel…
Always
On October 28, 1965, “Nostra aetate” or the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions was promulgated by Pope Paul VI. “Nostra aetate” is an official declaration of the Vatican II, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.
From “Nostra aetate:”
The Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel’s spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.
Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures.
As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham’s stock. Thus the Church of Christ acknowledges that, according to God’s saving design, the beginnings of her faith and her election are found already among the Patriarchs, Moses and the prophets…
The Church, therefore, cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient Covenant.
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