Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, defended the plan for “ecumenically mindful” reception of Communion in Catholic and Protestant services during Germany’s ecumenical congress May 13-16. The bishop told KNA, Germany’s Catholic news agency, May 11 that the services planned May 15 were not about “cross-denominational Communion in the sense of a general mutual Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Ecumenical’
Pope to join other Christian church leaders for Middle East
Thursday, July 5th, 2018Pope Francis will join other Christian church leaders tomorrow in Bari, southern Italy. They are gathering for ecumenical reflection and to offer prayers for Christians suffering in the Middle East. Read more Related Posts:Vatican ‘deeply concerned’ about the potential collapse of…Lebanese people don’t need any more interference, says PopeEWTN launches Arabic-language news agency based in Read more
Pope to join World Council of Churches anniversary
Monday, March 5th, 2018
The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis will join the World Council of Churches 70th anniversary celebrations in June. The gathering will take place in Geneva. The World Council of Churches (WCC) includes 348 member churches across 110 nations. It is the largest umbrella group of Christian denominations in the world. Members include most Eastern Orthodox Read more
Evangelii Gaudium – Ecumenical Dialogue
Friday, May 30th, 2014244. Commitment to ecumenism responds to the prayer of the Lord Jesus that “they may all be one” (Jn 17:21). The credibility of the Christian message would be much greater if Christians could overcome their divisions and the Church could realize “the fullness of catholicity proper to her in those of her children who, though Read more
Hospital Chaplaincy beyond religious control?
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
Sometimes truth is so hard to stomach that even though it stares you in the face and shouts itself hoarse trying to be heard we remain oblivious to its presence. This may be because the emerging truth demands much of us. The truth I have to face is that the Christian religion I represent has Read more
Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury pray together in Rome
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Church of England, on Saturday afternoon gave thanks together on the 1000th anniversary of the Camaldoli monastic community and celebrated Vespers in the church of St Gregory on the Caelian Hill. Williams is the third successive archbishop of Canterbury to visit San Gregorio Read more
Westminster Abbey choir to sing at St Peter’s in Rome
Friday, March 9th, 2012Westminster Abbey’s world-famous choir has been invited by the Holy See – through the Maestro of the Cappella Musicale Pontificia “Sistina” – to sing at St Peter’s in Rome. The Choir of Westminster Abbey will sing alongside the Cappella Musicale Pontificia, the Sistine Chapel Choir, at the liturgies of the Solemnity of St Peter and Read more
Religious Leaders to mark 25th anniversary of Assisi meeting
Friday, October 7th, 2011
To mark the 25th anniversary of Assisi meeting with religious leaders, called by Blessed John Paul II in 1986, Pope Benedict XVI has convoked a new gathering in the Italian town Oct. 27. Benedict and representatives of the world’s major religions will make speeches and sign a common commitment to peace when they meet in Assisi Read more
Pope to visit Luther’s prayer space: Ecumenical breakthroughs unlikely
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Catholic officials are signalling not to expect any ecumenical breakthroughs when Pope Benedict honours the 16th Century Protestant reformer, Martin Luther, during his state visit to Germany this month. Benedict will use the visit to stress ecumenical cooperation, meet Protestant leaders and tour a monastery in Erfurt where Luther once worked and prayed, and while Read more
The Holy Land: How to prevent a spiritual Disneyland
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
A two-day conference on the fate of Christians in the Holy Land took place in London this week. The conference cosponsored by the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, sought to address the threat that Christianity’s birthplace is now under. The risk, as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Read more