Regardless of what side of the “wall” you find yourself on, I have a feeling many of us are dismayed by the lack of conversation and communion which we are experiencing.
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Tag: Ecumenism
East Meets West in Liturgy
The reform of the liturgy after Vatican II is also debated within some Orthodox circles.
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Pope Francis at the World Council of Churches
Today Pope Francis made a visit to Switzerland that he has described as an “Ecumenical Piligrimage.” It has been a full day of meetings and
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The Whole is Greater than its Parts
Last week, a group of international scholars met at Notre Dame’s Global Gateway in Rome for a three-day conference entitled, “The Whole is Greater than its Parts: Christian Unity and Interreligious Encounter today.”
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Pope Francis Expresses “Fervent Hope” for Joint Catholic-Orthodox Initiatives
Pope Francis’s message to the Ecumenical Patriarch on St. Andrew’s Day affirmed a common passion for protection of the environment, and peace among religions.
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Reading DW #5: Where Are We on the Eucharist?
Perhaps the most hopeful section of the document, the agreement on the Eucharist that has been reached by the dialogues over fifty years is nuanced, careful, and generous.
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Reports Concerning Supposed “Ecumenical Mass” Are “Utterly False” Vatican Says
An anonymously sourced story being spread since March of this year, and recently reported in First Things, has been debunked.
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Brilliant Creativity: A Gift from the Reformation
The musicians who adopted musical styles prevalent in Central European centers drew from diverse religious sources of poetic and musical composition, in the milieu of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. I view the musical output of this period as one of brilliant creativity.
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Celebrating One Baptism in Christ
Catholics and Baptists, Lutherans and Episcopalians, Orthodox and Presbyterians, Methodists and members of the United Church of Christ gathered around a font given by Lutherans to Episcopalians for use in the Episcopal Cathedral.
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Here I … Walk? A Reformation Retrospective
What they’ve discovered, much to the surprise of many, is just how few true deep differences there really are. But centuries of strife cannot be cheaply written off; division breeds division, and we are still surrounded by its human and spiritual damage.
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