Today, January 18, begins the International Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. What do we pray for when we pray for Christian unity? What are the obstacles to unity that need to be overcome? When we ...

It is that time of the year when Christians make the right noises praying and professing their quest for union during the January 18-25 Christian unity week. This year Indian Christians ought to do ...

Pundits, academics, and church leaders alike decry our current age as a time of partisan rancor and disunity. People, we are told, are locked in “echo chambers,” and they refuse to listen to those ...

How “theological triage” helps us pick our battles on matters of faith. Other believers take a friendlier view of conciliatory language. Without compromising their core convictions, they want to build ...

Catholics certainly recognize Protestants as fellow Christians, who have (according to the Council of Trent) been validly baptized (provided only that it was trinitarian). Holy Communion is a somewhat ...

At its United States Faith and Order Conference in Oberlin, the World Council of Churches drew up a series of section reports which it referred to member churches for study. The issues debated in ...

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Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, gives an Advent reflection to Pope Francis and members of the Roman Curia Dec. 4, 2020, in the Vatican audience hall. Because of the ...

A bit of history is needed in order to understand the present-day ecumenical options. I shall start with the year in which my own ecumenical involvement began. Fifty-five years ago, in 1950, there was ...

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