This coming week, on Wednesday, we will be celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of Nostra Aetate (“In our time”), the Second Vatican Council’s “Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions”. The more conservative bishops at the present Synod on the Family might like to take note of it because it unquestionably created “new” theology and an explicit repudiation of older teaching. Although it addresses questions about Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam generously, the bulk of it is taken up with the Church’s relationship with Judaism. It rejects forthrightly the old charge of deicide (killing God) and affirms that “Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God”. All displays of