Editing Nostra aetate (section)

== Post-Conciliar developments ==

To flesh out these implications and ramifications, the Vatican's [[Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews|Commission for Interreligious Relations with the Jews]] issued its ''Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate'' in late 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/relations-jews-docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_19741201_nostra-aetate_en.html|title=Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate|website=www.vatican.va|access-date=2018-12-29}}</ref> The Commission later released ''Notes on the Correct Way to Present Jews and Judaism in the Teaching and Catechesis of the Roman Catholic Church'' in 1985.<ref>{{cite web |title=NOTES ON THE CORRECT WAY TO PRESENT THE JEWS AND JUDAISM IN PREACHING AND CATECHESIS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH |url=http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/it/commissione-per-i-rapporti-religiosi-con-l-ebraismo/commissione-per-i-rapporti-religiosi-con-l-ebraismo-crre/documenti-della-commissione/sussidi-per-una-corretta-presentazione-degli-ebrei-ed-ebraismo/en.html |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=www.christianunity.va}}</ref>

The [[U.S. Congress]] passed a resolution acknowledging the fortieth anniversary of ''Nostra aetate''.<ref>US House Concurrent Resolution 260 {{USBill|109|HConRes|260|pipe=Recognizing the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, ''Nostra aetate'', and the continuing need for mutual interreligious respect and dialogue.}}</ref>

The Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with Jews released a new document exploring the unresolved theological questions at the heart of Christian–Jewish dialogue. Entitled ''The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable'', it marked the 50th anniversary of the ground-breaking declaration ''Nostra Aetate''.<ref name="document">{{cite journal |last=Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with Jews |author-link=Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews |date=10 December 2015 |title=''The Gifts and Calling of God are irrevocable'' |location=Holy See |url=https://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2015/12/10/vatican_issues_new_document_on_christian-jewish_dialogue_/en-1193274 |access-date=2024-12-24 |journal=}}</ref>

On the fiftieth anniversary of the document's release, [[Sayyid Syeed]], the national director of the [[Islamic Society of North America]]'s Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, pointed out that ''Nostra Aetate'' was released during the 1960s [[civil rights movement]] in the United States, at a time when Islamic centers and student groups were being founded on university campuses, and from these humble beginnings the  "Catholic church acted as a big brother" in its understanding of a religious minority, a sentiment that has continued since the terrorist attacks of [[September 11 attacks|9/11]] when the Church opened its doors to them amidst growing [[Islamophobia]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/muslim-leader-praises-50-year-old-church-document-religious-dialogue|title=Muslim leader praises 50-year-old church document on religious dialogue|last=Zimmermann|first=Carol|date=21 May 2015|work=National Catholic Reporter|access-date=23 February 2019}}</ref>