WASHINGTON (NC) — The apostolic delegate in the United States, Archbishop Jean Jadot in an interview in the Washington Post, said: “The present guidelines on the selection of bishops developed from changes instituted by the Second Vatican Council.
“The concerns of the Church today are such that you need people of a somewhat different bent than they were before.»
He noted that in March 1972 the Vatican issued to its representatives throughout the world new instructions for consultation in selecting bishops. “The apostolic delegates were requested to make much wider inquiries than before,” he said.
Wasington (NC) — The Vatican has issued a farreaching call for deeper understanding and closer relationships in dialogue, prayer and action between Catholics and Jews.
The new document, which condemns “all forms of anti-Semitism and discrimination” as “opposed to the very spirit of Christianity,” is entitled “Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration ‘Nostra Aetate’ (no. 4).
“Nostra Aetate” (“In Our Age”) is the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions. Number 4 of the declaration deals with the Church’s relationship with the Jews.
