The extent of agreement in sectional groups at the two-day interfaith conference on the Role of Conscience in Social Reform ranged at the concluding session today from almost complete consensus in the discussion of racial justice to almost complete disagreement in the section on Government aid to religious education.
The 48 Protestant, 58 Catholic, 54 Jewish and five Eastern Orthodox representatives, however, were enough in agreement on the war in Viet Nam to develop a statement on it to be used to “challenge the consciences” of citizens both in and out of the nation’s churches and synagogues. At the same time, they disclaimed speaking for their sponsoring organizations — the Protestant National Council of Churches, the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Interreligious Affairs and the Jewish Synagogue Council of America.
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