Recent weeks have seen a number of events marking the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Catholic Church’s dialogue with the world’s religions. The document came to birth just some 20 years after the second World War and the atrocity of the Nazi ideology’s attempt to wipe out the Jewish people. The church had to painfully recognise a certain complicity in anti-Semitism by its teaching and preaching throughout the centuries. The document reminded Catholics that Jesus, Mary and the apostles were all Jews, and that the sacred Scripture of the Jews was our sacred...