CATHOLIC-JEWISH DIALOGUE OF COLLIER COUNTY

Film screening - 
Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers

Sunday, March 29, 2:30pm

Location: St. William Catholic Church, 601 Seagate Drive, Naples, FL 34108

Join us for this captivating one-hour documentary featuring 95-year-old Polish heroine Irena Sendler, who tells the unknown story of a conspiracy of women who outwitted the Nazis and rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during WWII. The film expertly captures the will and character of the women of the resistance against the backdrop of occupied Poland.

Nostra Aetate 60th Anniversary Symposium

60^th anniversary of Nostra Aetate symposium

Hosted over two days in December 2025 at both Ave Maria Universit and the Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center, the symposium brought together a panel of distinguished theologians and professors from across North America to discuss Nostra Aetate (In Our Time) the landmark document that changed 20 centuries of Catholic-Jewish relations, and its impact on our lives. 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of this effort, which was the result of Jewish and Catholic collaboration during the Second Vatican Council.

To view a recording (can we embed this): dropbox.com/scl/fi/envdc1jpwya3ntfcde2oe/Nostra_Aetate_Panel.mp4?rlkey=t6rt05bzcynka08nct6xdhyhg&st=0uhm56bk&dl=0

Participating panelists: Bishop Frank Dewane, Diocese of Venice; Dr. Matthew Tapie, director of the St. Leo University Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies; Dr. Robert Ventresca, president, King’s University College; Rabbi James Rudin, retired director of interfaith relations, American Jewish Committee; Rabbi Mark Gross, Jewish Congregation of Marco Island; attorney Martin Kaplan; theology professor T. Adam Van Wart, Ave Maria University; and Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, Temple Beth Shalom, Vero Beach.