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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Tag: Ecumenism
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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Celebrating 50 years of official dialogue between Methodists and Roman Catholics
In his speech at the audience, Pope Francis affirmed the work of the dialogue, acknowledged the fruits already produced, and encouraged the current commission in their work on “Reconciliation” in order to deepen the relationships between Methodists and Catholics toward the goal of visible unity.
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Martin Luther on Vowed Religious Life
“Vows only tend to the increase of pride and presumption.” “You are not wrong to take vows.”
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Martin Luther: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”
Now let the Word stand secure.
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What is the Declaration on the Way?
The Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry, and Eucharist (DW), is a document of the US Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue. It is an attempt to review
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