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Vatican exploring ways to expand Catholic-Jewish talks to include Muslims
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is exploring whether to expand its Catholic-Jewish dialogue to include Muslims, although talks are at a very early stage, a Vatican official said Friday.
Msgr. Michael Fitzgerald, who heads the Vatican’s office for inter-religious dialogue, made the comments after the World Jewish Congress said its chairman, Rabbi Israel Singer, had discussed the initiative with Fitzgerald and other high-ranking Vatican officials during a visit to Rome.
The main point of the talks was to intensify the Vatican’s official dialogue with Jews, but they also included “specific possibilities to expand interfaith talks to also include representatives from the Islamic faith,” the WJC said in a statement.
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is exploring whether to expand its Catholic-Jewish dialogue to include Muslims, although talks are at a very early stage, a Vatican official said Friday.
Msgr. Michael Fitzgerald, who heads the Vatican’s office for inter-religious dialogue, made the comments after the World Jewish Congress said its chairman, Rabbi Israel Singer, had discussed the initiative with Fitzgerald and other high-ranking Vatican officials during a visit to Rome.
The main point of the talks was to intensify the Vatican’s official dialogue with Jews, but they also included “specific possibilities to expand interfaith talks to also include representatives from the Islamic faith,” the WJC said in a statement.
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