📰 Leo XIV just explicitly approved of a note commemorating 60 years of “Nostra Aetate” and ordered its publication. It explicitly confirms: “Nostra Aetate emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War. Initially… as a response to the tragic consequences of antisemitism, which culminated in the Shoah.” Some highlights from the document: “[Nostra Aetate] marked a profound change in the Church’s understanding and expression of her relationship with followers of other religions. In that Declaration, the Church explicitly affirmed that she ‘rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions,’ inviting the faithful to regard with esteem and respect ‘the manner of life and conduct, the precepts and doctrines.’” “It is worth noting the growing critical awareness of manifestations of Islamophobia, which fail to distinguish adequately between, on the one hand, cases of fundamentalism and violence and, on the other hand, the peaceful lives of other Muslim believers who integrate into and contribute to the countries that welcome them.” “This solidarity with the Jewish people also includes the shared struggle against antisemitism. Nostra Aetate already states unequivocally that the Church ‘decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone,’ thereby reaffirming — and at the same time advancing beyond — what had already been declared by the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office on 25 March 1928.”