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Pre-Vatican II Views of Non-Christian Religions
All About the Document
Then and Now
Influential People
Current News About Nostra Aetate
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Before Vatican II the Catholic Church's relationships with Non-Christian Religions were weak, 2 reasons that Reverend Thomas Stransky gave for weak relationship, pre-Vatican, with the Jewish people are...
What are the Catholics’ belief that God should continue to punish the Jewish people for their rejection and killing of Jesus, or deicide, and also the Catholic's belief in the theory of supersessionism.
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The English name, publication date, and Pope at the time for Nostra Aetate.
What is the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Proclaimed by His Holiness Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965. This document is about the Catholic Church's relationship with non-Christian Religions and how the Church needs to work with all other religions to resolve differences.
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People who are still fighting with those who supported Vatican II document that supported inclusiveness of the Catholic Church
Who are people with traditionalist views.
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What Archbishop Lefebvre’s Declaration of 1975 states
What is “We refuse and have always refused to follow the Rome of the neo-Protestant trend clearly manifested throughout Vatican Council II and, later, in all the reforms born of it. The only attitude of fidelity to the Church and to Catholic doctrine appropriate for our salvation is a categorical refusal to accept this reformation.”
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This document urged Christians and Muslims to do this and also said this about discrimination
What is that the Council urges both groups to forget the past, work for mutual understanding and a common goal. This goal is to keep social justice,moral welfare, peace, and freedom alive in our hearts today. Also, there should be no discrimination. We all have human dignity. We can’t expect to be with God if we are not treating every person in brotherly or sisterly way because everyone is created in God’s image and we are all equal. We can treat no other person as an unequal based on their race, color, condition of life, or religion.
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The word used to characterize the Jewish people for years in the Good Friday liturgy; the word that was later changed under Pope Pius XII
What is "perfidies"
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The way the church explains how it now feels about Non-Christian religions.
What is an understanding of a changing world and how people are more accepting of differences and embracing diversity and the Church needs to move forward and promote unity and love.
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The paper called Dominus Iesus issued on September 5, 2000 by Pope Benedict XVI
What is that this paper said that the Catholic Church was the only place where salvation could be achieved, other religions-even the Orthodox-were defective, and that Catholics had a duty to convert all of them.
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Under John Paul II, the Catholic and Muslim relations were positive and respected; he reached out to their world and the description he gave to Nostra Aetate
What is when he met with Muslims more than sixty times and made history by becoming the first pope to ever enter a mosque.
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The difficulties with Hindu and Christian relationships and how we can improve that in the future
What are the hate campaigns between the two groups. We can improve this by declaring that all religions are equal and not treating other religions as inferior; we need to focus on similarities, not differences.
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The issues that all Catholics had with Buddhism and Hinduism.
What is primarily that they are not monotheistic religions and also that they have radically different views of an afterlife.
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The way that the Church is dealing with opposing religious beliefs.
What is the document's teaching for the Catholic Church to reject false and unholy teachings in these religions, but to revere the ways of life that bring about truth, even those that differ greatly from hers. The Church also encourages her people, in respect to the Christian faith, to join those other religions in promoting things that are spiritually and morally good.
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The reactions to the document, Nostra Aetate, by Hindus and Christians
What is that the document encouraged a sense of unity between Christians and other religions.
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In 2009, this pope traveled to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel to give a speech, which many Jews had problems with because it didn’t condemn Christian anti-Semitism, prejudice, or hatred against Jews; He also stated to Muslims that, to better improve Muslim-Catholic relationships, we need to reject violence and terrorism, as well as integrate faith and reason this pope is...
Who is Pope Benedict XVI
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More recent tensions with Jewish-Catholic relations
What are the “evangelical Catholics,” who want to reassert the traditional Catholic beliefs and practices; their concern for Jewish opinion is not likely to stop the Church from making choices that they see fit. Also Survivors from the holocaust that dealt with Catholic-Jewish relations are dying and new Catholic leaders may not see their relationship as an important moral obligation like before. And, more Catholic leaders from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, who don’t have any experience of Judaism, are making their interfaith relations priorities lie with other religions. However, this is working on being changed with very recent movements by our recent Popes and other Church leaders.
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The three discrepancies that caused Christians to see Islam as a religion that contradicted and possibly opposed the mission and purpose of Christianity.
What are their rejection of the Holy Trinity, their rejection of His resurrection as the Son of God, and their conditional polygamy rules.
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Similarities between Christians and Muslims
What are, the Muslims belief in the one God, their belief to accept their burdens humbly, they honor Mary and recognize Jesus, their belief in judgement day, and their respect and worship of their Lord God.
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The documents overall goal regarding Hinduism
What was to encourage respect and understanding of a religion very different from Christianity, and that goal is still active and ongoing today, but not all Catholics are in support of this because not all are in support of Vatican II.
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This specific cardinal, president of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jewish People, said that Nostra Aetate has impacted him and has been a transforming document...
Who is Cardinal Walter Kasper.
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Disagreements with Buddhism and Catholic Relationships
What are several traditional Catholics who refuse these teachings, and even went as far to completely contradict the document, like Bishop Mark A. Pivarunas in Omaha, Nebraska, who says that “Buddhism, like Hinduism, is a false religion-yet differs in that it does not recognize a personal god. How then could the Second Vatican council officially declare the praises of this false religion?” There are also Christians in Vietnam that forced conversion of Vietnamese Buddhists.
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Degrading names such as Heretics, pagans, infidels, etc.
What are the names that Christians called Non-Christians
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New attitudes toward Judaism that were suggested in this document
What are that we should recognize our numerous similarities, like our Lord God, the Old Covenant, Abraham, parts of scripture, and many more, and through those the council wants to promote and recommend that there be mutual understanding and respect between the two religions.
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The five standing conferences with Muslim groups established by John Paul II
What is The Muslim-Catholic Liaison Committee.
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The pope that described Nostra Aetate as “an expression of faith” and “an inspiration of the Holy Spirit, as a word of “Divine Wisdom”
Who is Pope John Paul II.
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Today’s Buddhist-Catholic Relationship.
What is a tremendous improvement in recent years.Just recently, in 2012, Pope Benedict XVI and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent a letter, composed by Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran, to “Buddhists friends” from Vatican City about Christians and Buddhists sharing responsibility for educating the young generation on justice and peace through interreligious dialogue. The letter is optimistic and good-natured, covering six points that hold a nice message for the Buddhists.