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Charbonell, 19 strong opposition grew among the French Catholic hierarchy.Cardinal Guillaume Meignan —the Archbishop of Tours— arguedthat America was not France and that the fact that something succeeded inthe New World did not guarantee its success in France. And Fr. Moreau,the vicar-general of the Diocese of Langres stated that the Catholic Churchhad no place in a Parliament of Religions, arguing that tolerance in mattersof dogma was heresy and that the Catholic Church, which alone possessedthe truth, had nothing to learn from others, and had no concessionto make. 20Contrary to the support the Parliament of Religions idea garnishedamong American Catholic leaders, Pope Leo xiii, at the request of his ApostolicDelegate in the United States, Archbishop Francesco Satolli, discouragedfurther Catholic involvement in interfaith gatherings and summonedCatholics to hold their assemblies apart and have non-Catholics astheir guests instead. Satolli’s concerns and the Pope’s admonition againstthe danger of religious indifferentism were early symptoms of the anti-Modernist crusade Leo’s successor —Pius x— would launch, which wouldnot only condemn interfaith gatherings but forbid meetings of priests withoutproper episcopal approval and supervision. This Catholic sentimentof exclusivism reached a climatic point in Pius XI’s encyclical MortaliumAnimos, in which the pontiff condemned the emerging ecumenical movement.21These antecedents of Nostra Aetate are helpful not only to place thedocument’s groundbreaking achievements in a historical perspective, butto understand the opposition it found in some of the conciliar fathers.Through this declaration, the Church was stretching the traditional Catholicattitude towards other religions from an exclusivist to an inclusivist position,acknowledging the true and good present in other religions whileretaining for itself the fullness of revelation and its primacy for salvation.The impact of Nostra Aetate in the ensuing decades was diverse indeeds and words according to various contexts. Archbishop Angelo Fernandesof Delhi, India, for example, played a significant leadership role inthe formation and work of the World Conference on Religion and Peace. 2219 Victor Charbonnel, “An explanation”, The Open Court Journal, 1 (1899): 36-44.20 Parra, “Standing with Unfamiliar Company”, 77-78, 81-82 Both quotations from Frenchprelates in James H. Moynihan, The Life of Archbishop John Ireland, (New York: Harperand Brothers Publishers, 1953) 44, note 21, La Revue Blue, Paris, November 16, 1895.21 Parra, “Standing with Unfamiliar Company”, 79-80, 88-98, 128-129.22 See Patrice Brodeur, “From the Margins to the Center of Power: The Increasing Relevanceof the Global Interfaith Movement”, Cross Currents 55, 1 (Spring 2005): 42.Congreso Continental de Teología x 711