Catholic Diocese Of Joliet

Bishop Conlon talks about Vatican II Council's Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council: Nostra Aetate ("In Our Age"). It’s a short document. The bishops understand that the world is a global village, and that the Church exists in the larger world. The Church is engaged in the world. Men look to religion to solve the riddles and major questions of life, the bishops said. Bishop Conlon said there are far fewer people asking these questions and far fewer finding the answers in a personal God. Thus, the place of religion in human society has changed in the past 50 years.