“Reading a few selections each day from this book impresses the reader with the diversity and commonality of faith expressed by the body of Christ.”
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Tag: Ecumenism
“Did you get your ashes?” Writing and Lecturing on Ash Wednesday
Inscribing or placing symbols directly on bodies (wedding rings, tattoos, baptismal water, chrism or oil of the sick, ashes) comprise profound performances of personal and group identity formation.
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CFP: Doxology
Call for Papers: Doxology
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Book Review: Community as Church, Church as Community
“A church is often one of the few places where we experience the gathering and sustaining of community…Community is not easily found anymore in our landscapes.”
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Psalms, not Walls
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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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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