New Directions Program for Teachers
 New Directions is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese
of Boston and the Anti-Defamation League of New England. The
Archdiocese of Boston has, for many years, enjoyed a positive working
relationship
with the Jewish community. This ongoing collaboration has created
a broad educational initiative jointly sponsored by the Archdiocese and
the Anti-Defamation League. For more information, contact:
The Office of the Secretary for Education
Archdiocese of Boston
One Lake St.
Brighton, MA 02135
617-746-5855
Where We Have Come From
In 1965 the world's Catholic bishops, gathered
at the Second Vatican Council, issued the Declaration on the Relationship
of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate. Section
4 of that document was a landmark in Catholic-Jewish relations. In
a few forceful words, the bishops renounced almost two thousand years
of anti-Jewish teaching, repudiated anti-Semitism in all its forms and
urged Catholics to recognize and to reclaim their common heritage with
the Jewish people. Today, dialogue is the hallmark of Catholic-Jewish
relations.
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