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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s declaration on informally blessing same-sex couples or other non-married couples is a reminder that the Catholic Church and its pastors never close the door on people seeking God’s help, said a commentary published in Vatican media.
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Posted: Dec. 19, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14005
Categories: CNSIn this article: Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, same-sex blessing, Vatican
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Catégorie : CNSDans cet article : Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, same-sex blessing, Vatican

Synods are ecclesial gatherings, intense moments of reflection on the Word of God symbolized by the presence of the Book of the Gospels enthroned in the midst of the assembly. The month-long General Assembly of the 16th Synod, which met in Rome from October 4 to 29, was an experience of prayerful listening. It began with an Ecumenical Prayer Vigil organized by the Taizé community on September 30, where young people from many countries led a series of meditations and intercessions for the world. Their words and gestures recalled the purpose of the synodal process: to help us become a church more responsive to the call to mission and service of the poor and those who suffer.
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Posted: Dec. 7, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14003
Categories: One Body, OpinionIn this article: Catholic, synodality
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Catégorie : One Body, OpinionDans cet article : Catholic, synodality

We write as Jewish scholars, religious leaders, and long-time practitioners in Jewish-Christian dialogue, in Israel, America, and Europe, to remind our brothers and sisters in the Catholic Church of “the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham’s stock” (Nostra Aetate #4) in a time of distress and anguish for Jews all over the world.
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Posted: Nov. 12, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14033
Categories: Documents, NewsIn this article: Holy Land, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Pope Francis
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Catégorie : Documents, NewsDans cet article : Holy Land, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Pope Francis

The great damage inflicted among Indigenous Peoples by the colonizing projects in North America/Turtle Island, including the far too frequent complicity of the churches with them, is something that can hardly be overstated. Most Canadian Christians are, I hope, relatively aware of the large-scale physical, cultural, and spiritual harms that were perpetrated by things like the reserve system, residential schools, and bans on traditional ceremonies and rites. Less widely considered, however, are the impacts that also came from the importing of inter-Christian hostilities from Europe to the Peoples of this land. Although less urgent than the direct and tangible abuses, here too there are harmful marks that must be reckoned with.
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Posted: Nov. 2, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13996
Categories: One Body, OpinionIn this article: Canadian Council of Churches, ecumenism, Faith & Witness, Indigenous church
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Catégorie : One Body, OpinionDans cet article : Canadian Council of Churches, ecumenism, Faith & Witness, Indigenous church

Members of the CWL across the country have identified ecumenical and interfaith cooperation as a priority as we move the League into the future within our church and country. To that end, the Faith Organizations working group was created to identify organizations with whom we can partner. This video highlights some of the reasons why we engage in these activities, which flow from our baptism and our call to be disciples of Jesus, bringing his Good News to our world.
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Posted: Oct. 19, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13988
Categories: News, ResourcesIn this article: Catholic, ecumenism, women
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Catégorie : News, ResourcesDans cet article : Catholic, ecumenism, women

The Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue in Canada (ARC) has met regularly since 1971. It works closely with the Anglican-Roman Catholic Bishops’ Dialogue (ARC-B), which was established in 1975. Supported by the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the mandate of both Dialogues is to advance ecumenical understanding and cooperation between the churches in our country. In recent years, the Anglican contingent on ARC has also added members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) as an expression of the deepening full communion relationship between the ACC and ELCIC.
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Posted: Oct. 18, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13985
Categories: Communiqué, DialogueIn this article: Anglican Church of Canada, Canada, Catholic, CCCB, dialogue, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
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Catégorie : Communiqué, DialogueDans cet article : Anglican Church of Canada, Canada, Catholic, CCCB, dialogue, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

“There is no synodality without ecumenism and no ecumenism without synodality.” These words were spoken at the “Together: Gathering of the People of God” ecumenical service on Saturday, September 30, in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. When I heard these words from the podium, I took notice. Ecumenism and synodality are both reform movements in the church. The integral connection between the two seemed self-evident to me, but it’s a good reminder.
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Posted: Oct. 5, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13930
Categories: One Body, OpinionIn this article: synodality
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Catégorie : One Body, OpinionDans cet article : synodality

Pope Francis has published an Apostolic Exhortation building on his 2015 encyclical. We’re not reacting enough, he says, we’re close to breaking point. He criticises climate change deniers, saying that the human origin of global warming is now beyond doubt. And he describes how care for our common home flows from the Christian faith.

“’Praise God’ is the title of this letter.  For when human beings claim to take God’s place, they become their own worst enemies.”

That’s how Pope Francis ends his new Apostolic Exhortation, published on the 4th October, the Feast of St Francis of Assisi.
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Posted: Oct. 4, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13927
Categories: Documents, Vatican NewsIn this article: climate change, creation, ecology, environment, Laudate Deum, Laudato Si', Pope Francis
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Catégorie : Documents, Vatican NewsDans cet article : climate change, creation, ecology, environment, Laudate Deum, Laudato Si', Pope Francis

On the eve of a three-day spiritual retreat for participants in the assembly of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis prayed that members of the church may embrace silence to listen to the voice of God and one another.

“Silence, in the ecclesial community, makes fraternal communication possible, where the Holy Spirit draws together points of view,” the pope said to members of the synod, Christian leaders and young people in St. Peter’s Square Sept. 30. “To be synodal is to welcome one another like this, in the knowledge that we all have something to share and to learn, gathering together to listen to the spirit of truth in order to know what the Lord is saying to the churches.”
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Posted: Oct. 1, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14381
Categories: CNSIn this article: Pope Francis, prayer, synod
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Catégorie : CNSDans cet article : Pope Francis, prayer, synod

Saturday evening’s Ecumenical Prayer Vigil is taking part in the context of the “Together” project, bringing together young people from the age of 18-35 who have come together for a weekend of sharing. The event was organized by some fifty church groups from a wide variety of denominations, at the initiative of the Taizé community and in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Synod; the Dicasteries for Christian Unity and for the Laity, Family, and Life; and the Vicariate of Rome.
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Posted: Sept. 30, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14379
Categories: Vatican NewsIn this article: prayer, synodality
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Catégorie : Vatican NewsDans cet article : prayer, synodality

The former acting General Secretary of the World Council of Churches reflects on the significance of the Ecumenical Prayer Vigil that ushers in the Synod on Synodality.

Reflecting on the Ecumenical Prayer Vigil in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday evening is Reverend Ioan Sauca, former acting General Secretary of the World Council of Churches.

He told Vatican Radio why he believes the Prayer meeting, just before the beginning of the discussions on synodality by Catholic Bishops is of great importance.
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Posted: Sept. 30, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14377
Categories: Vatican NewsIn this article: synodality, WCC
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Catégorie : Vatican NewsDans cet article : synodality, WCC

“Pope Francis’ call to all Christians to come together in St Peter’s Square … is something that brings hope to the world.”

That’s the bold claim made by Archbishop Ian Ernest, Personal Representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Holy See, in an interview with Vatican News.

He goes on to explain what he means.

“It’s all the baptised”, he says, “coming together in St Peter’s Square to pray for a Church which is engaging itself in a Synod to change the face of the world.”
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Posted: Sept. 30, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14375
Categories: Vatican NewsIn this article: Anglican, Catholic, synodality
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Catégorie : Vatican NewsDans cet article : Anglican, Catholic, synodality

At an ecumenical prayer vigil on the eve of the General Assembly of the Synod, Pope Francis says that the truth “does not need loud cries to reach people’s hearts.”

Pope Francis has addressed the thousands of pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square for an ecumenical prayer vigil.

The faithful – who hail from across the denominational spectrum, and include the heads of many Christian Churches – have gathered to entrust the upcoming General Assembly of the Synod to the Holy Spirit.
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Posted: Sept. 30, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14373
Categories: Vatican NewsIn this article: Pope Francis, prayer, synodality, Vatican
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Catégorie : Vatican NewsDans cet article : Pope Francis, prayer, synodality, Vatican

Church leaders from Ireland have gathered in Rome to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

In a joint statement, the Irish and British Ambassadors to the Holy See, Frances Collins and Chris Tott, said that they were delighted to welcome the leaders from several denominations.

“For decades, the Churches have played an important role in supporting peace and reconciliation,” they said, expressing hope that visit would “serve to inspire other church and faith-based leaders as they work to support peace and reconciliation around the world.”
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Posted: Sept. 29, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13978
Categories: NewsIn this article: Northern Ireland, peace
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Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : Northern Ireland, peace

On 19 September 2023, the last day of the Thirteenth Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Krakow, Poland, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU), and Revd Dr Anne Burghardt, General Secretary of the LWF, presented a “Common Word” [English and German] during an ecumenical prayer and baptismal commemoration.
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Posted: Sept. 21, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13999
Categories: Documents, NewsIn this article: Anne Burghardt, dialogue, Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, document, ecumenism, Kurt Koch, Lutheran World Federation
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Catégorie : Documents, NewsDans cet article : Anne Burghardt, dialogue, Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, document, ecumenism, Kurt Koch, Lutheran World Federation

During an ecumenical prayer service at the assembly of the Lutheran World Federation, the Vatican’s chief ecumenist and the federation’s general secretary formally called for a joint reflection on the Augsburg Confession, a fundamental statement of Lutheran faith.
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Posted: Sept. 20, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13976
Categories: CNS, Dialogue, DocumentsIn this article: Augsburg Confession, Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, Lutheran World Federation
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Catégorie : CNS, Dialogue, DocumentsDans cet article : Augsburg Confession, Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, Lutheran World Federation

The recently concluded World Youth Day in Portugal (August 1-6, 2023) included a number of ecumenical and interreligious experiences, opportunities, and lessons that garnered praise and criticism in Catholic and non-Catholic circles alike.

  • In addition to visiting and participating in events held within Catholic venues, WYD pilgrims were invited to visit significant Protestant and Orthodox churches and other houses of worship (synagogues, mosques, temples) in Lisbon and throughout the country, to “observe” how each religious denomination has its own history, content, ritual, and societal outreach.
  • With fellow Christians, WYD pilgrims were invited also to participate in prayers, lectures, and bible studies offered by Anglican, Protestant, Orthodox Church leaders, and ecumenical communities (such as Taizé and Chemin Neuf), and to “look for signs of unity” (of faith, sacrament, and mission) between these Christian communities.
  • On the interfaith side, organizers highlighted that “leaders of other faiths will be present at various events of the WYD Lisbon 2023 presided over by the Pope,” and indeed Pope Francis met with a number of ecumenical and interreligious leaders at significant events held throughout the week.
  • Groups from various religious backgrounds participated in a Youth Festival program that featured “music and singing as a universal language that facilitates encounters between religions, cultures and peoples.”

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Posted: Sept. 14, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13970
Categories: One Body, OpinionIn this article: ecumenism, next gen, youth
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Catégorie : One Body, OpinionDans cet article : ecumenism, next gen, youth

Ecumenism and the search for Christian unity are no mere niche interest, the Anglican Church of Canada’s lead animator for ecumenical and interfaith relations Canon Scott Sharman says, but rather “an essential part of being a disciple of Jesus today”—and ecumenical agreements between churches in countries like Canada may soon become more common.
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Posted: Aug. 31, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13982
Categories: Anglican JournalIn this article: Anglican, ecumenism
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Catégorie : Anglican JournalDans cet article : Anglican, ecumenism

In 2024, The Canadian Council of Churches (CCC) celebrates the 80th anniversary of its founding. Anniversaries are an opportunity to review the past and look to the future, to celebrate what has been accomplished and to learn from past experience, with a view to developing a clearer self-understanding in the present and identifying a vision for the future.
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Posted: Aug. 24, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13974
Categories: One Body, OpinionIn this article: Canadian Council of Churches
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Catégorie : One Body, OpinionDans cet article : Canadian Council of Churches

On Sunday, August 6, we in the Anglican Church of Canada will pause to acknowledge the 30th anniversary of the Apology offered by Archbishop and Primate Michael Geoffrey Peers. This moment is more pronounced, in light of his death on July 27.

I humbly ask that the moments we take on Sunday and throughout the week should also reflect a thanksgiving for the ministry of Archbishop Peers. He prayerfully stepped into that historic moment and stood before the people, apologizing for a wrong done and for trauma committed by our church. The willingness of the church to participate in the residential school experience has resulted in a legacy of trauma that’s been handed down and is lived daily by Indigenous survivors and their families.
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Posted: Aug. 2, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13920
Categories: News, OpinionIn this article: Anglican Church of Canada, apologies, Chris Harper, Indigenous peoples, Reconciliation
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Catégorie : News, OpinionDans cet article : Anglican Church of Canada, apologies, Chris Harper, Indigenous peoples, Reconciliation

Late last week we learned of the death of Archbishop Michael Peers, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada from 1986 to 2004. Our deepest condolences are extended to his wife, Dorothy, and his extended family.

Although +Michael retired as primate nearly twenty years ago, the legacy of his leadership continues in so many aspects of our life as a church. He often told the story of how he came to be a member of the church as a non-church attending young adult through the simple invitation of someone else. ‘Come and see’ was the invitation that brought him into the doors where he found, in faith, what he was seeking. He reminded us not to underestimate the power of invitation!
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Posted: Aug. 1, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13922
Categories: Memorials, NewsIn this article: Anglican Church of Canada, Linda Nicholls, Michael Peers
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Catégorie : Memorials, NewsDans cet article : Anglican Church of Canada, Linda Nicholls, Michael Peers

After nearly two years of parish listening sessions and consultations at the regional, national and continental levels, theologian Catherine Clifford said she thinks Catholics the world over are beginning to understand synodality.

“This is like a long kind of apprenticeship,” said Clifford, who teaches systematic and historical theology at St. Paul University in Ottawa, Canada.

Clifford is one of 10 non-bishop delegates from North America who will participate as members at the Oct. 4-29 Synod of Bishops on synodality in Rome. On July 7, the Vatican announced the full list of synod participants.
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Posted: July 13, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13918
Categories: NCRIn this article: Catherine Clifford, lay ministry, lay participation, synodality
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Catégorie : NCRDans cet article : Catherine Clifford, lay ministry, lay participation, synodality

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) welcomed the news from the Holy See’s General Secretariat of the Synod of the delegates appointed for the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to be held this October. The two episcopal conferences serve as the coordinating entities for the North American region for the Synod, which is themed, For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission. The first session of the Synod will be held at the Vatican on 4-29 October 2023, and the second session is scheduled to be held in October 2024.
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Posted: July 7, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13911
Categories: NewsIn this article: CCCB, synodality, USCCB
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Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : CCCB, synodality, USCCB

Racism has been identified as one of the most significant challenges facing the North American region in the United States and Canada, a World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting has heard. Members of the North American region of the WCC’s Central Committee, its highest governing body between Assemblies, met during its 21-27 June meeting in Geneva.

“North America or Turtle Island, which is the Indigenous name for North America, is one of three continents that make up ‘The New World.’ The continent was new to 15th-century European explorers but old to the Indigenous peoples already living there,” said Rev. Dr Angelique Walker-Smith, WCC president from North America.
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Posted: July 6, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13909
Categories: WCC NewsIn this article: Indigenous peoples, racism, WCC Central Committee
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Catégorie : WCC NewsDans cet article : Indigenous peoples, racism, WCC Central Committee

In recent years, the movement towards Christian unity, which had quickened after the Second Vatican Council, seemed to have become mired in a quagmire of insurmountable difficulties. The synodal process launched by Pope Francis has changed all that. The extraordinary synodal journey is not one that the Catholic Church is embarking on alone. The recently published Instrumentum Laboris – working document – for the forthcoming October assembly in Rome devotes a whole section to Christian unity and how the Catholic Church can learn from other traditions. This was the theme of a recent meeting that brought Church leaders and theologians from the Catholic Church and six other Christian denominations to Durham, in the northeast of England.
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Posted: July 6, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13732
Categories: TabletIn this article: receptive ecumenism, synodality
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Catégorie : TabletDans cet article : receptive ecumenism, synodality

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is planning a year of activities in 2025 to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in 325, a key moment in the history of Christian faith and for the ecumenical journey today.

“The anniversary offers an opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the outpouring mission of God’s triune love and the implications this has for the common witness and service of the churches, it gives us the opportunity to ask afresh with others what Nicaea means for us today.” said WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay.

The first Ecumenical Council was a gathering of Christian bishops in Nicaea, now İznik in present-day Türkiye, as the first attempt to reach consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom.

“Then, as now, the call to unity was heard within the context of a troubled, unequal, and divided world,” recalled Pillay.
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Posted: July 6, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13737
Categories: WCC NewsIn this article: 1700th anniversary, Nicaea, WCC, WCC Commission on Faith and Order
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Catégorie : WCC NewsDans cet article : 1700th anniversary, Nicaea, WCC, WCC Commission on Faith and Order

“Though they differ from one another in essence and not only in degree, the common priesthood of the faithful and the ministerial or hierarchical priesthood are nonetheless interrelated: each of them in its own special way is a participation in the one priesthood of Christ” (Lumen Gentium, #10).

The reports issued during the diocesan and continental phases of the Synod on Synodality 2021-2024 offer a consistent call for a renewed understanding of the universal or baptismal priesthood. These reports frequently refer to the Vatican II quotation above, reminding us that 60 years ago, the church began to chart a new path in which the laity are not passive observers of the clergy’s active ministry. At times over the intervening years, lay ministry has been deemed a collaboration in what was typically understood as clerical ministry. The very word “ministry” has been frequently denied to lay people, who were instead meant to have an apostolate in the world. Pope Francis’ call to end clericalism has not meant an end to ordained ministry. He has cautioned against moves to clericalize lay ministry, pointing instead to the baptismal dignity of all. The Synod participants have noted the scriptural foundations for a baptismal priesthood.
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Posted: July 5, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13734
Categories: One Body, OpinionIn this article: baptism, synodality, universal priesthood
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Catégorie : One Body, OpinionDans cet article : baptism, synodality, universal priesthood

The Sacred Circle is a gathering of Indigenous Anglicans in Canada. This year, it took place between May 29th and June 2nd, and its journey of understanding and reconciliation has much to teach the Church’s understanding of God, spirituality, and the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. The gathering took place around a fire.
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Posted: July 4, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13925
Categories: News, OpinionIn this article: Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Indigenous church, Sacred Circle
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Catégorie : News, OpinionDans cet article : Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Indigenous church, Sacred Circle

The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision today on the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) is a complex result that ultimately fails refugees.  The Supreme Court has allowed the appeal in part, sending the equality rights issue at stake back to the Federal Court,  and holding out for the possibility of the agreement being declared unconstitutional. But the Canadian Council for Refugees, Amnesty International Canada, and the Canadian Council of Churches are disappointed that the Supreme Court of Canada failed to decisively rule that the Safe Third Country Agreement violates refugees’ rights, exposing refugee claimants to further harms while awaiting another legal challenge.
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Posted: June 16, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13722
Categories: NewsIn this article: Canadian Council of Churches, refugees, safe third-country agreement
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Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : Canadian Council of Churches, refugees, safe third-country agreement

Catholic-Orthodox relations took a step forward this month with the publication of the first joint statement in seven years.

The document said Pope Francis’ hope for a synodal Church promotes “a more effective synodality,” which could eventually bring the Catholic and Orthodox Churches closer together on the issue.
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Posted: June 14, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13719
Categories: CNAIn this article: Catholic, dialogue, Orthodox, synodality
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Catégorie : CNADans cet article : Catholic, dialogue, Orthodox, synodality

The texts for the Week of Prayer of Prayer for Christian Unity 2024 have been published. The theme of the 2024 Week of Prayer is based on a text from the Gospel of St Luke: “You shall love the Lord your God … and your neighbour as yourself” (Luke 10:27). The preparation of the materials was entrusted to an ecumenical team from Burkina Faso facilitated by the local Chemin Neuf Community.
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Posted: June 5, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13715
Categories: Calendar, Events, ResourcesIn this article: prayer, spiritual ecumenism, WPCU
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Catégorie : Calendar, Events, ResourcesDans cet article : prayer, spiritual ecumenism, WPCU

At the root of Christian agreements and disagreements about Mary are matters that are at the same time biblical, doctrinal, historical, liturgical, theological, sociological, soteriological, ecclesiological, and so on. What does the Bible say or not say about Mary, and how is this to be interpreted? How much of what is professed about Mary belongs to the Tradition of the Church rather than directly found in Scripture? How much is from historical, cultural, or sentimental expressions developed within specific churches? Does Marian doctrine or devotion enhance or take away anything from the central focus on Christ? What is the relationship between God’s grace present and active in Mary’s life, and her own (and our own) human actions or belief? What is meant by the veneration of Mary (or of the saints) as distinct from worshipping God? When and by whose authority did Marian titles, feasts, and dogmas come to be assigned within the Christian Church? Are all such titles, feasts, and dogmas essential, obligatory, and/or intended to be marked with equal solemnity? How is Mary’s life and faith presented as a model for female Christian discipleship, or as exemplary for Christian life in general?
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Posted: May 30, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13708
Categories: One Body, OpinionIn this article: Anglican, dialogue, Evangelicals, Groupe des Dombes, Mary, Methodist
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Catégorie : One Body, OpinionDans cet article : Anglican, dialogue, Evangelicals, Groupe des Dombes, Mary, Methodist

Archbishop Christopher A. Harper was installed today as the National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop and Presiding Elder of Sacred Circle, with pastoral oversight over all Indigenous Anglicans. The installation took place at a meeting of Sacred Circle 11, the national gathering and decision-making body for Indigenous Anglicans in Canada.

The Archbishop previously served as the Diocesan Bishop of Saskatoon.
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Posted: May 29, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13712
Categories: NewsIn this article: Anglican, Chris Harper, Indigenous church
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Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : Anglican, Chris Harper, Indigenous church

A leading Asian theologian says Pope Francis’ decision to include non-ordained women and men as voting members of October’s synod assembly is a “giant step” that will irreversibly change the Church’s decision-making processes.

Last month, the synod secretariat announced the Pope had authorised a reform to allow at least 70 non-bishops to be members of the 4-29 October synod assembly in the Vatican. This move will see women given a vote in a synod for the first time.
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Posted: May 24, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13894
Categories: TabletIn this article: Pope Francis, synodality
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Catégorie : TabletDans cet article : Pope Francis, synodality

Cette semaine, les membres du Conseil de direction du Conseil Canadien des Églises se réuniront au Monastère des Augustines, à Québec, pour leur réunion du printemps 2023 (du 24 au 26 mai 2023).

La décision de convoquer cette réunion dans une ville francophone a été prise par le Conseil de direction après une saison de discernement sur ce que le Conseil pouvait faire pour mieux comprendre la vie de l’Église et de ses membres au Québec et améliorer ses relations avec elle.
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Posted: May 24, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13693
Categories: NewsIn this article: Canadian Council of Churches
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Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : Canadian Council of Churches

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay, has led a delegation to Moscow to meet with leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church, including Patriarch Kirill. The 24-hour visit, which was taking place on Wednesday and Thursday, followed a similar WCC trip from May 10-13 to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

“Consolidation and unity in Ukrainian society, including especially among the majority Christian Orthodox believers, is an obvious necessity in the current circumstances faced by the nation and people of Ukraine” observed Rev. Pillay. “We visited Moscow to discuss engagement also by the Russian Orthodox Church in dialogue on the war and its consequences, including with regard to the deep divisions in the Orthodox family in this context,” Pillay reported, “and I am grateful for HH Patriarch Kirill’s commitment to exploring this possibility.”
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Posted: May 18, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13685
Categories: NewsIn this article: dialogue, peace, Russian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox, WCC
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Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : dialogue, peace, Russian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox, WCC

New forms of spirituality, revival of traditional Indigenous beliefs, rising immigration, and debates on secularism are blurring the line between religion and non-religion in Canada, scholar David Seljak says — part of what he calls a “permanent revolution” and the latest development in how religion has shaped the country’s social order.

Seljak, a professor of religious studies at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, shared his views as the opening speaker at “Land, Law, Religion and Reconciliation,” a colloquium hosted by the University of Victoria’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (CSRS) May 4-6. His livestreamed presentation was the latest of the John Albert Hall Lectures, a series hosted by the university in which notable speakers discuss the changing role of religion in modern society.
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Posted: May 15, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13907
Categories: Anglican JournalIn this article: Canada, secularism
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Catégorie : Anglican JournalDans cet article : Canada, secularism

“Your Holiness, we humbly ask you to bless our synodal journey and to accompany us with your prayers, yours personally and those of your Church, that we may know how to put ourselves in the Spirit’s hands!”, it was with this particular request that Cardinal Mario Grech concluded his address of greeting this morning to His Holiness Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, accompanied by an eminent delegation of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
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Posted: May 12, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13667
Categories: NewsIn this article: Coptic, General Secretariat for the Synod, Mario Grech, Tawadros II
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Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : Coptic, General Secretariat for the Synod, Mario Grech, Tawadros II

Pope Francis has continued his predecessors’ serious commitment to ecumenical dialogue, but he also makes ecumenical gestures that underline that seriousness. Meeting Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Egypt, Pope Francis paid tribute to the 21 Coptic martyrs murdered by Islamic State in 2015, noting they were killed for being Christian, not for being Orthodox. And he announced that they would be added to the Roman Martyrology, the book-length calendar of saints and blessed remembered by Catholics at Mass.
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Posted: May 11, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13669
Categories: CNSIn this article: Coptic, martyrdom, Pope Francis, Tawadros II
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Catégorie : CNSDans cet article : Coptic, martyrdom, Pope Francis, Tawadros II

Pope Francis’ decision in late April to include lay persons as full participants with voting rights in the upcoming Synod of Bishops is a significant step towards making the synod a body that more adequately represents and embodies an act of discernment by the whole entire people of God.

In exhorting the pastors of the local churches to embark upon a synodal process with the whole community of the baptized and listen to the voices of the marginalized, the pope has been seeking to reawaken the muscle memory of the ecclesial body.
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Posted: May 10, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13681
Categories: NCR, OpinionIn this article: Catholic, laity, Pope Francis, synodality
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Catégorie : NCR, OpinionDans cet article : Catholic, laity, Pope Francis, synodality

Leaders from the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity convened on 9 May to plan for the period 2023-2030.

The leaders met in a prayerful and collegial atmosphere to evaluate past collaboration between the WCC and the Roman Catholic Church during the 2013-2022 strategic period. They then went on to share the 2023-2030 WCC strategic objectives, and to reaffirm and refine future ways of working, with particular reference to the work of the Joint Working Group, WCC commissions, and collaboration with other dicasteries and Catholic organisations with reference to the current ecumenical and global landscapes.
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Posted: May 10, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13916
Categories: WCC NewsIn this article: Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, Joint Working Group, WCC
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Catégorie : WCC NewsDans cet article : Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, Joint Working Group, WCC

When King Charles III and his wife, Queen Consort Camila, are crowned on Saturday, the event will mark a historic juncture in Catholic-Anglican relations, as it will be the first time a Catholic bishop has participated in the ceremony in four centuries.

In a May 5 statement, the Archdiocese of Westminster in the UK, overseen by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, called Saturday’s coronation “an historic occasion for the nation, and also for the Catholic community.”

“For the first time in over 400 years, a Catholic Archbishop will take part in a Coronation in this country,” the statement said, referring to the fact that Nichols has not only been invited to attend the ceremony, but he will also give a blessing.
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Posted: May 6, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13664
Categories: CruxIn this article: Anglican, Catholic, Charles III
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Catégorie : CruxDans cet article : Anglican, Catholic, Charles III

Pope Francis is getting personally involved in making sure sacred items and cultural artifacts held in the Vatican Museums are returned to Canadian Indigenous communities.

“The restitution of Indigenous things of Canada is underway, at least we agreed to do so,” Pope Francis told reporters during his news conference on the plane trip back to Rome April 30 following his papal visit to Hungary. “I will now ask how that’s going.”
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Posted: May 3, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13652
Categories: Catholic RegisterIn this article: Indigenous peoples, Pope Francis, Reconciliation
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Catégorie : Catholic RegisterDans cet article : Indigenous peoples, Pope Francis, Reconciliation

Have you ever greeted a neighbour with a “Happy Easter,” only to learn that they are still in the season of Lent and won’t be celebrating the Feast for another couple of weeks? In areas where Christians of different denominations live closely together, especially Eastern and Western churches, the search for a common date to celebrate Christ’s resurrection has become an urgent concern. As St. Paul makes clear (1 Corinthians 15:12-14), belief in the resurrection is a fundamental aspect of the apostolic faith. By celebrating this event on different days, Christians compromise their credibility and effectiveness in bringing the Gospel to an increasingly secular world.
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Posted: Apr. 27, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13572
Categories: One Body, OpinionIn this article: Date of Easter, dialogue, WCC
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Catégorie : One Body, OpinionDans cet article : Date of Easter, dialogue, WCC

After the Vatican’s recent repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, I spent two hours speaking with three Indigenous people about the 500-year-old church doctrine that is as much the bedrock of Canada as the Canadian Shield.

I asked about its relevance, the potential of its undoing, and a question I had never asked before. Those discussions left me feeling both low-level dread and an almost irresistible sense of the possibility of grace. First, what is the Doctrine of Discovery?

“The story of the Doctrine is the story of how you can obtain other people’s land by magic,” retired judge Harry LaForme told the Globe and Mail in 2022. “You just sprinkle these papal bulls and you get it.”
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Posted: Apr. 20, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13570
Categories: News, OpinionIn this article: Doctrine of Discovery, Indigenous peoples, Mennonite, Reconciliation
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Catégorie : News, OpinionDans cet article : Doctrine of Discovery, Indigenous peoples, Mennonite, Reconciliation

By the time the Catholic Book of Worship III hits its 30th birthday in 2024, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops hopes to have its replacement sitting in the pews.

Music for Catholic Worship (it is not to be called CBW IV) “will soon be entering the layout stage, which will be followed in due course by printing and marketing,” National Liturgy Office director Christina Ronzio told The Catholic Register  by email. “The CCCB will announce a publication date when the manuscript goes to the printer, as there are many variables to consider when deriving that date.”
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Posted: Apr. 19, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13659
Categories: Catholic RegisterIn this article: Catholic, CCCB, hymnal, liturgy, music
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Catégorie : Catholic RegisterDans cet article : Catholic, CCCB, hymnal, liturgy, music

The Cross of Wales, a new processional cross presented by King Charles III as a centenary gift to the Church in Wales, will lead the Coronation procession at Westminster Abbey on 6 May. In a significant ecumenical gesture, the Cross of Wales incorporates a relic of the True Cross, the personal gift of Pope Francis to the King to mark the Coronation. The relics, set into the silver cross, are two small wooden splinters from the cross on which Christ was crucified.
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Posted: Apr. 19, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13565
Categories: NewsIn this article: Anglican, Catholic, Charles III, Church in Wales, Pope Francis, relics
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Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : Anglican, Catholic, Charles III, Church in Wales, Pope Francis, relics

With sadness at the loss, and with joy for a life filled with love and justice, we share with you that Janet Somerville, past General Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches (1997-2002), breathed her last on Sunday morning, April 16, 2023. We have lost a giant in the Canadian ecumenical movement. The first woman and the first Roman Catholic General Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches, she embodied and pointed the way to the new pathway of faith, witness, justice, and peace grounded in the broader ecumenical movement of Anglican-Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions.
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Posted: Apr. 18, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13562
Categories: Memorials, NewsIn this article: Canadian Council of Churches
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Catégorie : Memorials, NewsDans cet article : Canadian Council of Churches

The final document for the North American phase of the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality was released April 12, capturing a process of dialogue and discernment that two participants described as ‘messy,’ ‘joyful’ and unifying — like the synod itself.

“It’s amazing what comes about when … you invoke the Holy Spirit in the conversation,” Julia McStravog, a theologian and co-coordinator of the North American team for the synod’s continental phase, told OSV News.
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Posted: Apr. 12, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13700
Categories: NCR, OSV NewsIn this article: CCCB, General Secretariat for the Synod, synodality, USCCB
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Catégorie : NCR, OSV NewsDans cet article : CCCB, General Secretariat for the Synod, synodality, USCCB

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