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Kinship Recalled, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

Members and friends of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies celebrate the bond between Jews and Christians. The booklet contains talks that were given during an interreligious service by Father John Gilchrist, Mrs. Nelda Goergen, Rabbi Dr, Asher Finkel and Monsignor John M. Oesterreicher on October 23, 1983.

"Abba, Father!" On The Humanity Of Jesus, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher examines the fatherhood of God in early Judaism

The Rediscovery Of Judaism: A Re-Examination Of The Conciliar Statement On The Jews, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

This booklet contains the paper that opened a Convocation of scholars at Seton Hall University from October 25-28, 1970, for the fifth anniversary of the promulgation of the Conciliar Statement on the bond of the Church to the Jewish people. The Convocation stood under the joint sponsorship of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies and The American Jewish Committee.

Shalom: The Encounter Of Christians And Jews And The Catholic Educator, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

This is an address given by Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Education Association in Detroit, MI on April 10, 1969, under the title "Shalom: The Catholic-Jewish - A Service to Church and Society."

The Brotherhood Of Christians And Jews, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

On February 16, 1964, the Brotherhood of Congregation Agudath Achim (Band of Brothers) of Taunton, Massachusetts, in conjunction with the National Con­ference of Christians and Jews, awarded Monsignor John M. Oesterreicher its brotherhood award for the year 1963.

Accepting the award, Monsignor Oesterreicher gave this address.

Why Judaeo-Christian Studies?, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

John M. Oesterreicher delivered this inaugural lecture at the founding of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University on March 23, 1953.

Pro Perfidis Judaeis, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

This article examines the meaning of perfidia and perfidus and the significance of the rubric directing certain omissions in the Good Friday petitions in the Roman Missal.

Racisme--Antisémitisme, Antichristianisme, Documents Et Critique, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

Msgr. Oesterreicher completed this thesis shortly after escaping the grasp of the Gestapo when he fled from Austria to Paris.

His thesis argued that what started as a glorification of the so-called Aryan race would ultimately result in the persecution and disenfranchisement of the Jewish people and a contempt of all things human and Christian and was in essence, a rebellion against God's grace and mercy.

Hominem Non Habeo, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

In this article, John M. Oesterreicher protests in the name of justice, the Spirit, the Gospel and the Church against the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws, which had been promulgated one month earlier by the Third Reich in September 1935.

It is a turning point for the Die Erfüllung (The Fulfillment), the journal John M. Oesterreicher founded, which had previously avoided addressing political events. As Oesterreicher noted:

"We have refrained from expressing a reaction to the exclusion of German Jewry from the economic and social life of Germany. This, however, is no longer possible; we can no longer look on …