Reaching Back Across the Gulf
To Unite on Common Points of Doctrine

 

Catholic Cardinal Preaches Christian Unity To Queen
Detroit Pentecostal Congregation Converts to Catholicism
Lutheran, Catholic and Episcopal Churches
draw closer in Ohio pledging to worship, lobby
and pray together as a sign of Christian unity
Catholics and U.S. Presbyterians Move Closer
German Lutherans Consider Accepting Pope As Spokesman
ECUMENICAL CONSULTATIONS HELD ON INDULGENCES
Finnish Lutheran Evangelicals Encouraged in Unity
Key Week Is Beginning for Ecumenical Dialogue
Lutherans and Episcopalians Celebrate Unity

A Jubilee Year, Papal Indulgences,
and Christian Unity?
Lutheran Bishop Calls For Common Communion
with the Roman Catholic Church!

Catholics and Lutherans
Sign Accord on Justification By Faith,
Ending Dispute of 482 Years!



Pope Hails Accord As Milestone To Unity!

Accord Closes "Wound" of Nearly 500 Years!

  
© LWF 1999

Bishop Krause (Lutheran World Federation President) and Cardinal Cassidy (President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity) at the signing ceremony.

Bishop Krause Meets with the Pope in Rome who calls signing
"an important step toward the recovery of full Christian unity."



Cardinal Cassidy says "There is nothing in this agreement that
is not in the Council of Trent or the Catholic tradition."
(in other words the Lutherans have agreed with the Council of Trent)

Text of the Joint Declaration on Justification

News Reports: RELIGION TODAY  Catholic World News

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod,
which did not sign the accord, calls it

"A Betrayal of the Gospel"!

 

 

Lutherans Approve "Full Communion"
with Reformed Churches.

Joint Celebration Service
in Chicago on Oct. 4th.

CATHOLICS AND ANGLICANS:
FROM CONTROVERSY TO CONVERGENCE

New Anglican-Catholic Statement On Papal Authority
Archbishop of Canterbury Supports Document on Papal Authority.

THE DOCUMENT - THE GIFT OF AUTHORITY
Anglicans and Lutherans in Europe
Reach Unity Agreement.
ELCA Lutherans Approve Full Communion
With Episcopal and Moravian Churches
19 August 99
Documents of the Pontifical Council
for Promoting Christian Unity
Online at the Vatican.
Roman Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants
Sign Agreement on Baptism.