Church committed to reconciliation with Jews: popePope Benedict XVI  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. on Tuesday said that the Catholic Church was "irrevocably committed" to reconciliation with the Jews.
"Today I have the opportunity to repeat that the Catholic church is irrevocably committed to the path chosen at Second Vatican Council Noun 1. Second Vatican Council - the Vatican Council in 1962-1965 that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms Vatican II Vatican Council - each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church for a genuine and lasting reconciliation between Christians and Jews," he said at a meeting with Israel's two chief rabbis. "As the declaration Nostra Aetate makes clear, the Church continues to value the spiritual patrimony PATRIMONY. Patrimony is sometimes understood to mean all kinds of property but its more limited signification, includes only such estate, as has descended in the same family and in a still more confined sense, it is only that which has descended or been devised in a direct line from the common to Christians and Jews and desires an ever deeper mutual understanding and respect through biblical and ideological studies as well as fraternal dialogues." Nostra Aetate, passed by the Second Vatican Council in 1965 under Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. , proclaimed that the Jewish people as a whole could not be held responsible for the death of Jesus Christ. 
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