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CajunRick
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Posted: Tue Nov 28th, 2006 04:50 pm |
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Washington DC, Nov. 28, 2006 (CNA) - According to a press release from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic and Reformed churches have recently made “significant” progress toward mutual understanding, signing a document that recognizes their common baptism.
The Reformed-Catholic Consultation met at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, Oct. 8-10. News of the signing was issued on Nov. 22.
“Roman Catholics and representatives of Reformed bodies say clearly to each other, to the larger world, and, - perhaps most importantly - to local parishes and ecclesially divided families - that we embrace each other as pilgrims who share a common baptism in Jesus Christ,” said Richard Mouw of Fuller Theological Seminary.
“The current dialogue between members of the Reformed tradition and the Roman Catholic tradition is a conversation on what we believe about Baptism and how we celebrate this sacrament liturgically. Our discussions clarify where we are one and where we differ, so that we may find the road to closer unity in our common apostolic Christian faith,” commented Bishop Patrick Cooney of Gaylord, Mich.
Most of the conversation centered on a 50-page report on sacramentality in the two churches, called “Mutual Recognition.”
“Already signaled in ‘Lumen Gentium’ (1964), the validity of Christian baptism creates the necessary precondition for the possibility of ecumenism since it establishes an ecclesial reality of real, though imperfect, communion. Any diminishment of that unity puts the ecumenical movement toward fully visible communion at serious risk,” a press statement said.
Participants agreed to a trajectory through October 2007 to conclude work on baptism. In view of the request from the Vatican, plans were also set in motion to begin a study of the relationship of baptism to the Eucharist, and the role of both sacraments in shaping the churches and drawing them toward fuller communion.
The dialogue was established in 1965, and is currently sponsored by the U.S. bishops’ Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, the Reformed Church in America, the Christian Reformed Church, the Presbyterian Church USA, and the United Church of Christ. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America sends an observer.
The above article is reposted with permission from the Catholic News Agency.
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BodRod
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Posted: Tue Nov 28th, 2006 07:15 pm |
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Hi Rick,
It seems to me that there have been several events in the past couple of years which could be interepreted as a movement toward the unification of the Christian world. Has the RCC ever had a person who might be called a prophet(ess), who has said that the Christian world will eventually be united as it was before the Reformation era? 
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CajunRick
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Posted: Tue Nov 28th, 2006 08:01 pm |
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BodRod wrote: Hi Rick,
It seems to me that there have been several events in the past couple of years which could be interepreted as a movement toward the unification of the Christian world. Has the RCC ever had a person who might be called a prophet(ess), who has said that the Christian world will eventually be united as it was before the Reformation era?
Not to my knowledge, but then I never claimed that I knew everything. 
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Posted: Wed May 2nd, 2007 12:44 am |
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Darlene
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 08:44 pm |
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Amen Candlemass, Amen!
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mg57
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Posted: Sun May 27th, 2007 10:49 pm |
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Bod -
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, -
BLESSED MARIA GABRIELLA SAGHEDDU (1914-1939)
http://www.mariagabriella.org/inglese.htm
The Patron Saint of Christian Unity – Vatican Radio ( Link to audio)
http://www.vaticanradio.org/english/Articolo.asp?c=113991
Paul B.Quattrocchi: A Life for Unity: Sr.Maria Gabriella - New City Press, New York 1990. 183 pp.
Pearce Cusack: Blesed Gabriella of Unity: A Patron for the Ecumenical Movement, Cistercian Press, Ros Cré, Ireland 1995. 166 pp.
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