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US bishops clarify statement on Catholic-Jewish dialogue

A precarious moment in Catholic – Jewish relations

Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman Catholic leaders is at risk because of a recent US bishops’ statement on salvation.

The Pope and His Jewish Friends. So Near, and Yet So Far – Benedict XVI will visit the synagogue of Rome soon. But the more progress is made in dialogue, the more the two faiths see how far apart they are.

Update from JTA

Catholic bishops to edit interfaith document

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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