A Personal Reflection on Dialogue with Muslims – an Experience in Jerusalem

Abstract

In 1965, paragraph 3 of Nostra Aetate announced the dawning of a new age in the development of the attitude of the Catholic Church towards Muslims. The text of the conciliar document states with limpid clarity: "The Church regards with esteem also the Muslims". The long centuries that had known too much suspicion, antipathy and even violence were now to give way to a new epoch in which Catholics and Muslims were called to recognize how much they had in common and to work together to build a more just and more humane world. [...]