Word: intercommunion
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...million Anglicans in 1974, he became the first Evangelical to lead the Church of England in 126 years. Last week the zealous and professorial Archbishop traveled to Rome for his first meeting with Pope Paul VI and made an unexpected and dramatic bid for Anglican and Roman Catholic intercommunion...
Communion with Protestants is becoming more common, although the Vatican allows it only under special circumstances, and bishops frown on casual intercommunion. At St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Ames, some of the town's many Protestants show up occasionally at Communion and are not turned away ("So many of them believe as we do," explains Pastor James Supple). Last Easter the Catholic and Episcopal chaplains at an Eastern university assisted a Lutheran minister in celebrating the midnight Eucharist-in a Dutch Reformed church. Catholics are generally enjoying a new freedom to attend Protestant and Jewish services. "In Oklahoma...
...churches were concerned, some bishops seemed more anxious for closer cooperation than for recruits. Archbishop Samuel Carter of Kingston, Jamaica, even called for "corporate reunion" between some Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Church on a regional basis. "Full agreement in doctrine is not needed before some measure of intercommunion is allowed," noted Carter, who urged greater development of joint Protestant-Catholic services. Regional union, he suggested, would eventually mean the incorporation of "new and distinct rites with disciplines different from the Latin Church. This would involve married clergy of new Western rites coexisting in the same regions with...
...auxiliary bishops, Thomas Gumbleton and Walter Schoenherr, who promised their "prayers in this just cause." >For three years Anglicans and Lutherans have been holding international talks to bring about a closer mutual relationship. Now the two teams of representatives have issued a joint report in London "unanimously" urging increased intercommunion, more joint worship and even integrated ministries between the two groups. The report notes that the two bodies now recognize each other as basically "catholic" and "apostolic." In the wake of Roman Catholic talks with both Anglicans and Lutherans, the report could help pave the way for intercommunion among...
...September. The Pope and the Archbishop have only now agreed to release the statement, but simply as a basis for further study-not as church teaching. Nonetheless, the commission report implies that any remaining theological differences on the central issue of the Eucharist are not major enough to forestall interCommunion which some observers expect within the decade...