VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican is working on a new set of pastoral guidelines for interreligious dialogue, a leading official said. The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue began pulling together elements for the guidelines at its plenary session in Rome, said Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, council president. "After many years of hesitation about the suitability of such a document, the time has arrived to offer pastors and the faithful some general orientations, which obviously will have to be adapted to local situations," Cardinal Tauran said in an opening address to the council's plenary meeting June 4. The cardinal said the guidelines would be inspired in part by the Ten Commandments, which remain universal principles in a believer's relationship with God and with neighbors. Cardinal Tauran offered no timeline for the new document, but said the council's meeting should provide ample material for its preparation. His comments were reported by Vatican Radio