Word: intercommunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interfaith age, Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy pray together and picket together, and hardly a church exists that has not been preached to by a minister of another faith. But there is a point where ardent advocates of ecumenism draw the line: interCommunion. To receive the consecrated bread and wine together is the ultimate expression of Christian unity, and to do so lightly is morally wrong as long as Christianity remains divided...
...dedicated Catholic and Protestant laymen reportedly belong to ecumenical study groups in The Netherlands that periodically celebrate interfaith Communions; either a minister or a priest will preside, and the consecrated elements are given to all members present. And though probably most common in Northern Europe, experiments in interCommunion have taken place in the U.S. and even in Rome, where one Catholic priest privately admits that Protestant ministers have showed up for services at his church, stayed to receive Communion with the congregation...
Breaking the Law. For Catholics and most Protestants, this kind of ecumenical disobedience is a violation of church rule. Catholicism's canon law forbids interCommunion, although an exception is made for Eastern Rite Catholics, who under certain circumstances may receive - the sacraments in Orthodox churches. While some Protestant groups -such as the Disciples of Christ-admit any baptized believer to the Communion table, most take the view that admittance to the sacrament should be preceded by a confession of faith...
...doctrine of transubstantiation is about to be jettisoned for the more enlightening concept of transignification, Anglicans and Roman Catholics may look for limited intercommunion in 1966-and perhaps even full intercommunion by 1970, which, after all, is the fourth centennial of their separation...
...Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (2,500,000) and the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (20,000). At Missouri's insistence, the new agency will have a strong division for theological studies, which could help resolve some of the issues that now stand in the way of Lutheran intercommunion and pulpit fellowship. > Even closer to union are the 928,000-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) and the Reformed Church in America (232,000). A joint study committee has found no major obstacle to merger of these two Calvinist bodies, which already share a common church school curriculum...