Following the peace event at the Colosseum, the Pope concluded a meeting with leaders of other religions. They all came to the Vatican to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the document Nostra Aetate.
This text marked a shift in the Catholic Church's attitude toward other religions. Rome stopped focusing on their differences and began to concentrate on what unites them. For example, the transcendent meaning of life in an increasingly secularized world. In fact, Pope Leo XIV emphasized that this is the role of religions today.
POPE LEO XIV
At this crucial moment in history, we are entrusted with a great mission — to reawaken in all men and women their sense of humanity and of the sacred.
The Pope also reminded everyone that religions are for peace, not for fanaticism, because for all those who believe in God, the rest of men and women are not strangers, but brothers and sisters.
POPE LEO XIV
Nostra Aetate teaches that we cannot truly call on God, the Father of all, if we refuse to treat in a brotherly or sisterly way any man or woman created in the image of God.
The document Nostra Aetate was one of the shortest of the Second Vatican Council, but at the same time one of the most revolutionary. The initial idea was to reflect on the relationship between the Catholic Church and Judaism, but in the end it went much further, addressing the relationship with all other religions.
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