Pope St John Paul II once said that Jews are the elder brothers of Christians but this was not always as well understood as it is now. Since this journal’s foundation 175 years ago, there has been a profound shift in relations between the faiths CATHOLIC-JEWISH relations’ transformation in the twentieth century was a sign of hope in an age dominated by war and unprecedented violence. Jewish memories of the twentieth century are still overshadowed by the catastrophe of the Holocaust, but Jews also remember with immense gratitude the achievement of the Second Vatican Council and the subsequent papal leadership in the decades that followed, which transformed their relationship with the Catholic community.Catholic-Jewish relations in England were initially distant and quite unpro