Roman Catholic Documents

Second Vatican Council

• Nostra Aetate, Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (1965)
• Lumen Gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (excerpt)

Benedict XVI

Selected letters and addresses (2005 - present)

John Paul II

Selected letters and addresses (1979 - 2005)

Vatican Offices

Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews:

• "We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah" (1998)
• "Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church" (1985)
• "Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration  Nostra Aetate, No. 4" (1974)

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:

• Declaration Dominus Iesus on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church (2000)

International Theological Commission:

• "Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past" (1999)

Pontifical Biblical Commission:

• The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible (2001)
• "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church" (1993)
• "Scripture and Christology" (1984)
• "The Historical Truth of the Gospels" (1964)

Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

• "Dialogue and Proclamation: Reflection and Orientation on Interreligious Dialogue and the Proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ" (1991) [in collaboration with the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]

Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission:

• "The Church and Racism" (1988)

Secretariat of State

• Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel (1993)

National [U.S.] Conference of Catholic Bishops (and sub-committees)

• Catholic Teaching on the Shoah: Implementing the Holy See's We Remember (2001)
• God's Mercy Endures Forever: Guidelines on the Presentation of Jews and Judaism in Catholic Preaching (1988)
• Criteria for the Evaluation of Dramatizations of the Passion (1988)
• "Guidelines for Catholic-Jewish Relations" (1985)
• "Statement on Catholic-Jewish Relations" (1975)
• "Guidelines for Catholic-Jewish Relations" (1967)

Notable Documents of European Catholic Bishops' Conferences

• Polish Bishops, "Letter on the Occasion of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000" (2000).
• Italian Bishops, "Letter to the Jewish Community of Italy" (1997)
• French Bishops, "Declaration of Repentance" (1997)
• Swiss Bishops, "Confronting the Debate About the Role of Switzerland during the Second World War" (1997)
• Dutch Bishops, "Supported by One Root: Our Relationship to Judaism" (1995)
• Polish Bishops, "The Victims of Nazi Ideology" (1995)
• German Bishops, "An Opportunity to Re-examine Relationships with Jews" (1995)
• Hungarian Bishops and Ecumenical Council of Churches in Hungary, "Joint Statement on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Holocaust" (1994)
• Polish Bishops, "Pastoral Letter on Jewish-Catholic Relations" (1991)
• Bishops of West Germany, Austria & Berlin, "Accepting the Burden of History: Common Declaration on the 50th Anniversary of the Pogroms Against the Jewish Community on the Night of 9-10 November 1938" (1988)
• West German Bishops, "The Church and the Jews" (1980)
• French Bishops, "Jewish-Christian Relations" (1973)