Center News Archive

2007

Center Leadership Changes

From The Heights: "Speaker addresses rift between Judaism and Christianity" 

Center honored for "Building Bridges of Understanding"

2006

Center and C21 Online launch second online mini-course: The Birth of Jesus - Two Gospel Narratives

Center's website receives positive academic review

Center co-sponsors international theological consultation near Rome: Christ and the Jewish People

Center director in Commonweal: "Uncharted Waters: The Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations"

Center sponsors online dialogue and forum on this summer's Israeli-Hezbollah conflict

Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, visits Boston College & Brandeis University

Center produces first online mini-course: The Death of Jesus - Four Gospel Accounts. See also article from Boston College Magazine: "Distance Learning"

2005

Center co-sponsors international theological conference in Rome to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Vatican II declaration: "Nostra Aetate Today"

Center and BC Libraries launch new electronic journal, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, the official journal of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations.

Center's Christian Scholars Group publishes new book: Seeing Judaism Anew: Christianity's Sacred Obligation

Center and Archdiocese of Boston commission new painting to mark the fortieth anniversary of Nostra Aetate: "In Our Time"

Center launches online slideshow in memory of the life and pontificate of Pope John Paul II: Definer of a New Relationship: John Paul II and the Jewish People

Dr. Audrey Doetzel, NDS appointed Center's Assistant Director for Programs

2004

First Center book published, Pondering the Passion: What's at Stake for Christians and Jews?, edited by the Center director

Center co-sponsors third annual New Hampshire Jewish-Catholic Seder

Center launches new online resource: An Annotated Sourcebook: Jewish Understandings of the Other

Center figures prominently in debate over Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." See story from @BC: "Impassioned debate"

Center director on National Public Radio's "The Connection," hosted by Jim Gordon, discussing "The Passion of the Christ." Streaming audio.

Center director on PBS' "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" discussing "The Passion." Text, streaming video, and forum responding to viewers' questions.

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Council of Synagogues publishes Walking God's Paths: Christians and Jews in Candid Conversation. This six-part video series for interreligious dialogue among local congregations was produced by the Center. See story from @BC: "Whose Bible?"

2003

Center featured in university's 2003 annual report

In memory of Center's founding donor, John Corcoran

Center welcomes Torah scroll rescued from the Holocaust to its new home at Boston College

2002

Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, visits the Center and delivers major address.

Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations forms; Center at Boston College to serve as administrative headquarters

Center's Christian Scholars Group issues: "A Sacred Obligation: Rethinking Christian Faith in Relation to Judaism & the Jewish People." See related story from the Boston College Chronicle: "At BC, Scholars Affirm Christian-Jewish Ties"

2001