How do you know which bishops issued this statement regarding "The Passion"? I haven't seen a list. I thought the list of bishops at the top of this letter might have been the ones responsible, but they are not the same as the bishops you mention.
Participating in the meeting were:
For the USCCB: Cardinal William H. Keeler; Bishops Arthur J. Seratelli of Paterson NJ, John J. Nevins of Venice FL, Gerald Walsh of New York, John Nienstedt of New Ulm; Msgrs. Guy Massie of the Archdiocese of New York, Denis Madden and Robert Stern of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association; Reverends John Crossin, OSFS, of Washington Theological Consortium, Charles J. Parr of the National Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Officers, Lawrence Frizzell of Seton Hall University; Drs. Dennis McManus and Eugene Fisher of the USCCB staff; and Lauri Przybysz of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
http://www.nccbuscc.org/comm/archives/2004/04-237.htm
This guy was at the meeting on behalf of the bishops:
Why convert the saved?
Eugene Fisher
The Catholic Church does not support organisations which aim to convert Jews. Nor should it, argues the associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. For the Church believes that Judaism is salvific for Jews.
http://thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00544
The first time this article was posted it had a list of the the guys who signed it, I saw their names on the list, so I mentioned them. That is at least from the statement I read two or three days ago on here (maybe just one, I don't remember).