Representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops? Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and the National Council of Synagogues met on May 17 to discuss ?Sources of Authority in Catholicism and Judaism.?
?One of the obvious differences between our two faith communities is that while no one rabbi or religious body can speak for all Jews, the Church has a ?Magisterium? made of bishops in communion with the pope, whose interpretation and application of the word of God can be binding on all Catholic believers,? said USCCB official Father James Massa.
Rabbi Avram Reisner, professor of ethics at the University of Maryland, noted that only between 200 B.C. and A.D. 70 did Judaism have a body analogous to the Magisterium: the Sanhedrin. He asked, ?Is it any coincidence that the Christian community emerges from Judaism precisely at the time when such a body of authoritative teachers is in place for the parent religion??
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