Two Americans, Australian named to Catholic-Muslim commission

Published: 2005-09-13

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI nominated two U.S. university professors and an Australian Jesuit to be part of a Vatican commission that promotes Catholic-Muslim dialogue. Sandra Keating, a professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, Lamin Sanneh, a Yale Divinity School professor, and Jesuit Father Daniel Madigan, director of the Institute for the Study of Religions and Culture at Rome's Gregorian University, were chosen to be members of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations With the Muslims. The pope also appointed three other experts from Italy, Spain and India to serve the five-year terms. The Vatican released a list of the six new consultors in a written press statement Sept. 10. The commission, which is part of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, works "to study and promote religious relations with Muslims," said the council's secretary, Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata.

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