The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says it will remove language from a document which caused “serious concern” among Jewish leaders.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says it will remove language from a document which caused “serious concern” among Jewish leaders.
A coalition of five Jewish organizations had written the bishops in August taking issue with a recent conference statement that described interfaith dialogue as an implicit invitation to baptism and appeared to say that the Mosaic covenant with God was obsolete.
In a letter to the Jewish groups, the bishops said it would change the document to eliminate the disputed passage and affirmed that Catholic-Jewish dialogue “has never been and will never be used by the Catholic Church as a means of proselytism … nor is it a disguised invitation to baptism.” They also said that the Mosaic covenant “endures till the present day.”
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