Interfaith Dialogue as Apostasy: Nostra Aetate’s Betrayal of Catholic Truth
The Catholic News Agency portal (November 12, 2025) reports on an interfaith event at The Catholic University of America celebrating the conciliar document Nostra Aetate. “Bishop” Étienne Vetö (Reims) claims this text created “unbelievable… trust” between Catholics and Jews, while Rabbi Noam Marans gloats that Christianity no longer needs to “self-define in opposition to the other.” Carmelite “Fr.” Craig Morrison asserts Catholics must “listen to Jews for the first time in our shared history,” calling the Gospels “Jewish documents” requiring Jewish interpretation to avoid anti-Semitism.
Subversion of Evangelization Through False Dialogue
“Nostra Aetate planted a seed that must continue to be nourished”
This poisonous seed – the conciliar declaration’s §4 on Judaism – constitutes formal apostasy from the Church’s divine mission. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation) defined Catholic teaching from St. Cyprian (Epistle 72) through Pope Pius XII (Mystici Corporis, 29). The panel’s jubilation over abandoning “triumphalism” exposes their hatred for Christ’s Great Commission: “Go teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
When Morrison claims “Western Christianity kept Jews silent for centuries,” he blasphemes the Holy Ghost’s work through saints like Vincent Ferrer – who converted thousands of Jews through preaching – and the Inquisition’s protection of baptized Jews from relapsing. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) explicitly condemns the proposition that “the Church is an enemy of… progress” (Error 57), demolishing this neo-modernist canard.
Heretical Equivalence Between Covenants
“Christianity no longer needed to self-define in opposition to the other”
Marans’ admission reveals the conciliar sect’s surrender to Judaism’s rejection of Christ. Pope Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) declares: “His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end to peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it and gird it with justice and righteousness from henceforth and forever” (quoting Isaiah 9:7). To claim modern Judaism – which denies Christ’s divinity and His fulfillment of Messianic prophecies – shares equal covenant status constitutes denial of the New Testament’s superiority condemned in Hebrews 8:6-13.
The panel’s silence about conversion proves their apostasy. St. Paul wept for his Jewish brethren’s salvation (Romans 9:1-5), while these false shepherds celebrate perpetual Jewish unbelief. Pope Benedict XIV’s Ex Quo Primum (1751) mandated prayers for Jewish conversion, stating: “The Church… constantly prays for the conversion of the Jews.”
Modernist Corruption of Scripture
“Our Gospels are part of Jewish documents… significantly reduce the risk of anti-Jewish preaching”
Morrison’s assertion that the Gospels require Jewish contextualization to avoid “anti-Jewish” interpretation repeats the Modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Divine inspiration does not extend to the whole of Holy Scripture” (Error 11). The Holy Ghost inspired the Evangelists to record exactly what God willed for our salvation – including Jewish leaders’ role in Christ’s Passion (Acts 4:27-28). To claim these texts promote anti-Semitism is to accuse God of fomenting hatred.
St. Pius X further condemned the proposition that “the dogmas of the Church are to be harmonized with science” (Error 64) – precisely what occurs when Morrison subordinates Gospel truth to Talmudic “understanding.” This is theological treason against 1 Timothy 3:15: “The Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
Silence on the Supernatural: The Ultimate Apostasy
The panel’s entire discussion occurs within a naturalistic framework bereft of grace, judgment, or salvation. Not one speaker mentions:
- The necessity of Baptism for Jews (John 3:5)
- Our Lady of La Salette’s warning about Jewish Masonic infiltration
- The eternal fate of souls rejecting Christ
Pius XI’s Quas Primas reminds us: “When men recognize… the royal prerogatives of Christ, a return to obedience is preparing and maturing among many of those who… have become exiles from His Kingdom.” True Catholic-Jewish “dialogue” consists solely in urging our elder brethren to embrace Him Who fulfilled their prophecies. This neo-modernist carnival of interfaith apostasy mocks the martyrs who died proclaiming “Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.”
Source:
Growth of Catholic-Jewish interfaith vision encouraged at Catholic Univeristy of America event (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 12.11.2025