Commission on Ecumenism and Interreligious Affairs

Official Church Teachings

The Roman Catholic Church has produced important texts that guide our engagement with Christians of other communities as well as with other religious traditions. The following links provide those most important texts.

Nostra Aetate (Declaration on the Relations of the Church to Non-Christian Religions from Vatican II)
Unitatis Redintegratio (Decree on Ecumenism from Vatican II)
Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church from Vatican II, cf. #13-17)
The Joint Declaration on Justification between Roman Catholics and the World Lutheran Federation
Ut Unum Sint (That The All Are One, Papal Encyclical by Pope John Paul II)
We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah (by the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews)
Selected Texts from Vatican II and the Holy Father on dialogue with Islam

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