Sentences with phrase «spiritual patrimony»

Although various pressures led to the watering down of the text on relations with the Jews, it affirmed the great «spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews» and expressed the Council's wish to foster mutual understanding.

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My review of a book that reports the story of a man who died in 1940 does not in any way purport to compromise what, in 1965, Blessed Paul VI set down in Nostra Aetate, especially no. 4: «In her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.»