The
SIDIC Rome Center - Service International de Documentation
Judéo-Chrétienne (International Service of
Jewish-Christian Documentation), one of the fruits of the
Second Vatican Council, was created in November 1965 by
several bishops and experts who had labored for the declaration
Nostra Aetate (par. 4) concerning the Christian Churches'
relations with the Jewish people.
Underlying all of SIDIC Rome's work is the call of the
Church to understand and esteem the Jewish people as it
understands itself, and to deepen Christian faith through
the study of the faith of the Jewish people, whom Pope John
Paul II referred to as "our elder brothers." (Who
we are)