1965    Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.

1965    ''Nostra Aetate'', the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.

1965    Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.

1968    Pope Paul VI issues the ''Credo of the People of God''.

1968    Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.

1975    The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.