A new interreligious commission on sex, marriage and family life has chosen a rabbi, a Catholic layman and a Protestant minister for its first slate of national officers, it was announced today at National Council of Churches headquarters.
Chairman of the Interfaith Commission on Marriage and Family Life is Rabbi Mordecai L. Brill, chairman of the Synagogue Council of America’s Committee on the Family, William Maughan, Roman Catholic layman is vice-chairman. Secretary is the Rev. William H Genne, coordinator of the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Marriage and Family. All three work in New York City.
The new commission has a membership of 18 specialists appointed by the Synagogue Council of America, the U.S. Catholic Conference and the National Council of Churches, Mr. Genne said. Its purpose is the formulation and promulgation of common Protestant-Catholic-Jewish policy on “the complex problems bound up in sexuality, marriage and family life,” he pointed out. “We hear so much about the differences between religious groups in this area that we need to affirm the 90 percent of our stands on family life on which we agree.”
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