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The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning is devoted to the multifaceted development and implementation of new relationships between Christians and Jews that are based, not merely on toleration, but on full respect and mutual enrichment. The building of new, positive relationships between Christians and Jews requires sustained collaborative research. Under the Center's auspices, scholars and thinkers representing diverse Christian and Jewish perspectives engage in intense and ongoing study of all aspects of our related yet distinct traditions of faith and culture.
Sharing Sacred Spaces is a community-building organization that brings people together across difference in a uniquely compelling, non-threatening, and highly effective way through the medium of architecture or space. Communities inhabit and find meaning in space. And it is the space—entering the space—where we begin to be able to really hear one another's stories, beliefs, and values. It is through sharing "sacred" spaces where we develop compassion and a new, broadened, view. It is where we begin to understand the spectrum of being human in all its fullness.
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The Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews was established by Pope Paul VI on 22 October 1974, but already during the Second Vatican Council, in the course of the preparation of the document now known as Nostra aetate, the complex and urgent theme of relations with Judaism had arisen. On 5 June 1960 Pope John XXIII had decided to create a Secretariat for promoting Christian unity as a preparatory body for the Council. Read More...
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