#12417 Did Vatican II Make Us Too Kind to Other Religions? w/ Simone Rizkallah - Simone Rizkallah
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Did Vatican II make us too kind to other religions?” This episode explores the implications of Vatican II on interfaith relations, alongside questions about the historical treatment of Catholics by certain Jewish sects, the Vatican’s role during the Holocaust, and how to reconcile Jesus’ claims with the beliefs of Judaism and Islam. Tune in for a thoughtful examination of these important topics.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:02 – Did Vatican II Make Us Too Kind to Other Religions?
- 31:29 – If Catholics and Jews are supposed to get along, why are Catholics mistreated by certain sects of Judaism?
- 35:21 – What was the Vatican’s role during the Holocaust?
- 43:37 – How can we accept Jesus saying I am the Way Truth and Life and embrace Judaism and Islam knowing they reject Jesus?
- 46:40 – Does the Incarnation of Jesus resolve the issue of the arbitrariness of the Jewish notion of being the chosen people?
- 49:31 – How does the Church’s stance today compare its previous stance of super secessionism?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I am Cy Kellett, your host, And a good day we got for you today, a very good day. |
| 0:23.5 | Tim will be here second hour, and you can ask him anything, which is always fun, because people will ask |
| 0:29.2 | anything. But I don't know if you know this. I didn't know it until our guest, Simone Riscala, |
| 0:34.1 | told me that the Second Vatican Council document, Nra Itate was promulgated in October |
| 0:39.8 | of 1965, which means it is 60 this year. Right now, it is 60 years old. And so we're going to take |
| 0:47.6 | a little time to talk about that document and the impact of it. And if you don't know what |
| 0:52.0 | Nostratate is, it has to do with inner faith and inter-religious |
| 0:56.7 | dialogue. How does the church see other religions and other faiths? And so that's what we're, |
| 1:06.5 | and you can see how that would be controversial, because the church has had a lot to say about that over the years, |
| 1:12.6 | and it kind of found a new way to say a lot of things at the Second Vatican Council. |
| 1:17.0 | So when No Shatte came out, groundbreaking, but slightly controversial, the controversy has maybe built more over the years. |
| 1:25.5 | Many Catholics, leaders of other faiths, especially Jews and Muslims, |
| 1:29.1 | really dug it. And that's an official reading. It dug it. They dug it. But in important ways, |
| 1:35.8 | it didn't sound like other documents, especially on Jews and Muslims. And so that's been a good |
| 1:41.8 | source of the controversy. So as I said here, to help us |
| 1:45.1 | understand, Nostratate is our very good friend, Simone Rizcala, sometimes called Ms. Riz. She was the director of program growth at Endow, where they helped women to engage the rich intellectual tradition of the church, which is probably where she first read Nostratate. I don't know, maybe she first read it in school. But tell us what you're doing now, Simone Riscala. |
| 2:04.4 | Thank you, Sondon. the church, which is probably where she first read Nostratate. I don't know, maybe she first read it in school. |
| 2:03.3 | But tell us what you're doing now, Simone Ruscala. |
| 2:05.1 | Thank you, Sai. It's going to be back. |
| 2:06.5 | I am now the director of Philos Catholic at the Philos Project, so I help Catholics reconnect |
| 2:13.1 | to our Hebraic, our Jewish, and our Near Eastern Christian roots. |
| 2:18.4 | So pretty lofty. |
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