Leading Catholic, Protestant and Jewish educators gathered here today for a national two day conference devoted to efforts for overcoming interfaith misunderstandings in religious educational materials. The parley was sponsored by the Religious Education Association of Metropolitan Chicago and the local chapter of the American Jewish Committee.
A joint, trifaith statement on the purposes of the conference, which has been addressed “to the dilemma of the contradictions of the past,” was issued by the parley’s program steering committee. Members of the committee are the two co-chairmen, Dr. Marcus J. Priester, professor of Christian Education at the McCormick Theological Seminary, and Rabbi Herman E. Schaalman, of Emanuel Congregation here; and Sister Mary Fredericus, dean of studies at Rosary College.
The statement noted that “while efforts have been made to advance inter group understanding in the top levels of church leadership, religious education in the lower levels has often undermined this understanding. This conference will represent a major effort toward bringing religious education into harmony with these higher ecumenical and inter-religious purposes.”
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