Reorganization of the former Subcommission for Catholic-Jewish Relations established by the American Bishops Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs in 1965, was announced today by Bishop Francis P. Leipzig, of Baker, Oregon. Bishop Leipzig Is Moderator of the new Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations.
The new Secretariat will have its headquarters at Seton Hall University here with Father Edward H. Flannery as executive director. Bishop Leipzig also announced the appointment of an Executive Committee for the Secretariat and a Board of Consultors.
The subcommission was originally established to increase Jewish-Christian understanding and dialogue. It published “Guidelines for Catholic-Jewish Relations” in 1966. The new secretariat, Father Flannery said today, “should prove a potent instrument in achieving new advances in Jewish-Catholic harmony in the United States and should contribute effectively toward putting to naught the productions of those observers who have despaired of the Jewish-Christian dialogue in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of last June.”
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