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actively involved in the genesis of this global interfaith movement throughits participation in the World’s Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in1893, a movement from which the Church withdrew shortly after due tofears of religious indifferentism. With Nostra Aetate the Church was backat the interfaith conversation with an attitude of renewed confidence thatmeant a stretch from traditional Catholic exclusivism to innovative Catholicinclusivism, with occasional incursions into truly pluralistic initiatives,such as the centennial Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1993.In the Latin American context, the shift in the Catholic attitude towardsnon-Christian religions as embodied in Nostra Aetate is also perceivedin the reflections of Medellín, Puebla, Santo Domingo, and Aparecida. Aquestion remains to be further explored: what is the relationship betweenthe justice-related priorities of the Church in Latin America and the interfaithdemands derived from an increasingly pluralistic milieu? Differentattitudes towards this question unfold in a very internally diverse RomanCatholicism in Latin America.On October 28, 1965, the conciliar fathers of Vatican ii, gathered in asession presided by Paul vi and open to the public, proceeded to cast afinal, ceremonial vote on a document that proved to be one of the mostgroundbreaking and internally controversial statements of the 21 st ecumenicalcouncil: the Declaration Nostra Aetate about the relation of theChurch with non-Christian religions. It would soon be the shortest of thesixteen official documents produced by the council. But it was the onewith the deepest significance and the highest impact. The final version ofthis 1,600-word document, scarcely five pages, was the point of arrival ofa thorny path that reflected the tensions at work in the council, the mosthistoric Catholic event in the 20 th century, which would be solemnly adjournedsix weeks later. 3Perhaps only a few —if any— noticed that the day of the vote was theseventh anniversary of the election of the late John xxiii, whose convocationof the council would be the most articulate response of the CatholicChurch to its most unavoidable and formerly fought threat: modernity. Itwas precisely John xxiii who envisioned reaching out to non-Catholics —both Christian and not— as one of the main objectives of the council, agoal consistent with the religiously diverse environment that the modern3 Documentos del Vaticano ii (Madrid: bac, 1982), 611-612.Congreso Continental de Teología x 705