This year marks the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate (“In Our Time”), a short but transformative document that reshaped the Catholic Church’s approach to non-Christian religions.
On October 16 of that year, medium and long-range missile launch facilities of the Soviets were discovered in Cuba, with the capability of attacking the United States.
Sixty-three years ago, on October 11, 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the historic Second Vatican Council, fully convinced that it was time to “throw open the windows of the Church and let the fresh air of the Spirit blow through.”
