Nostro Aetate: 1965 Catholic Church Statement Against Replacement Theology and For One Covenant of Grace

Deacon Keith Fornier and Lee Kanter discuss the often overlooked Nostro Aetate, the official Catholic Vatican 2 position paper from October 28,1965 that states: "Thus, the Church acknowledges that, according to God's saving design, the beginnings of her faith and her election are found already among the Patriarchs, Moses, and the Prophets...The Church, therefor, cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws sustenance from the root of that well-cultivated olive tree onto which have been grafted the wild olive shoots, the Gentiles. Indeed, the Church believes that by His cross Christ, Our Peace, reconciled Jews and Gentiles, making both one in Himself."