Thursday, March 17, 2005

Theological talks called vital to Catholic-Jewish ties

From a Jewish perspective...?
Forty years after Catholics re-evaluated their relationship with Jews in the Nostra Aetate, is it time for Catholic-Jewish dialogue to arrive in "the Promised Land"?

A Vatican official used that biblical metaphor last week to express hope that the relationship between the two faiths could reach a higher level.

But other clergy and scholars at a colloquium at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law countered that for such progress to be made, Jews must be ready and willing to discuss theology -- a topic that has not been a priority of dialogue in the American Jewish community.
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