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| Catholics and Jews After Nostra Aetate and the Evangelical War on Halloween |
| October 22, 2015 |
Fifty years ago, the Vatican declared that Jews are not to blame for the death of Christ. A rabbi and a Catholic historian explore the legacy of this landmark decision. Plus: why many Christians believe Halloween is a celebration of evil.
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| Nostra Aetate:The Vatican's Reconciliation with Judaism |
October 22, 2015 |
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When our own Maureen Fiedler attended mass as a child, the priest would pray for the conversion of the Jews, to "remove the veil from their hearts." And for centuries, Catholic tradition taught that Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus. But that all changed in 1965, when the Vatican published a ground-breaking official document called Nostra Aetate. Now, fifty years later, we confront the long history of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church and find out what still needs to be done.
James Carroll, Writer-in-Residence at NYU author of Christ, Actually: The Son of God in the Secular Age
Rabbi Jack Moline, Executive Director of the Interfaith Alliance
From March, 1963: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel meeting with Cardinal Augustine Bea, who oversaw the draft of Nostra Aetate. (American Jewish Committee) |
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| The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler |
October 22, 2015 |
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The Vatican and Pope Pius XII are routinely criticized for silence and inaction during World War II and the Holocaust. Some commentators go as far as calling Pius XII "Hitler's Pope." But after years of digging through Vatican and German archives, Mark Riebling found new evidence for a story that historians have known for decades: that the pontiff kept up good relations with Hitler for diplomatic reasons, all the while secretly plotting to kill him.
Mark Riebling, historian and author of Church of Spies: the Pope's Secret War Against Hitler
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| A Wiccan and Christian View on Halloween's Dark Side |
October 22, 2015 |
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When Halloween rolls around, many devout Christians turn off the lights and head for the basement. As Candy Gunther Brown explains, for many conservative Christians, all those sinister decorations "make the occult seem fun, and not all of these spiritual forces are for good." We'll hear a different take from a Wiccan priestess, who says the pagan holiday of Samhain can be a time to reconnect with departed loved ones. From Oct. 2014.
Phyllis Curott, Wiccan priestess and trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions
Candy Gunther Brown, religious studies professor at Indiana University, Bloomington
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