The first interreligious conference on the social role of man’s conscience opened here today with a marathon attempt to define the nature of religious conscience from three distinct yet overlapping points of view — Protestant, Jewish and Roman Catholic.
The two-day conference is being sponsored by the Synagogue Council of America, the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Committee on interreligious affairs, and the National Council of Churches, composed of 34 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox denominations. About 180 persons representing the three faiths were in attendance. They consisted of theologians and other clergymen, university educators, sociologists and other social scientists.
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and the Rabbinical Council of America, the two major Orthodox synagogue and rabbinical groups, which are members of the SCA, are boycotting the conference.
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