During Vatican II, Father Yves Congar, acting as official Vatican envoy, met with Jєωs in France to ask them what they wanted. The Jєωs answered they wanted to be considered as “brothers, partners equal in dignity”. Lazare Landau writes, “the Council granted our wishes”. Since then, two new concepts have emerged in the Church’s relations with Jєωs; the notion of “praying to the same Lord”, and that of a “common mission” to bring God to the world (that requires no need for Jєωs to convert to Christ's Church for salvation), which are the principles followed to this day by Pope Benedict XVI