Assisi 40th anniversary: Rabbi Rosen says interreligious dialogue is essential to peace

At a Sant'Egidio peace meeting in Assisi marking forty years since John Paul II's 1986 interreligious gathering, Rabbi David Rosen argued that respect between religions is essential to peace. He said Nostra Aetate affirmed that truth can be found beyond the Catholic Church and that no tradition has a monopoly on access to God. The claim that no faith holds exclusive truth sits in tension with Christ's words in John 14:6, and shows how interfaith unity is being promoted as a path to world peace.