In Our Age: Celebrating 60 Years of Interfaith Dialogue

The fall of 2025 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s document, Nostra Aetate (“In Our Age”), on the Church’s relations with Jews, Muslims, and those of other religions. Scholars suggest that Nostra Aetate ushered in a “Copernican revolution” in the way the Church relates to non-Catholics. Many of the examples of interreligious collaboration that we take for granted in 2025 were unthinkable not so long ago, and this 60th anniversary of that watershed moment in the life of the Catholic Church should be an opportunity for reflection on the past and preparation for the future. To mark this anniversary, and to facilitate this reflection on the past and preparation for the future, The Irma Pastrana Borrero Foundation for Humanity’s Peace and Development in partnership with The Sheen Center, in collaboration with the Archdiocese of New York, Peace Islands Institute New York, and Park Avenue Synagogue will present an interreligious panel discussion representing the Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish traditions, musical interludes from Sufi musicians and a Jewish cantor.