Word: interfaith
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...striking reform of the Vatican Council's third session last fall was the decree on ecumenism that authorized Roman Catholics, under certain circumstances, to participate in prayer services with Protestants and Jews. Many U.S. bishops assumed that the decree gave them considerable latitude to encourage interfaith contacts, and have done so. Now Rome has told them to slow down...
...orders came in a confidential letter to the bishops from Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, who as Apostolic Delegate in Washington serves as liaison between the American hierarchy and Rome. His letter warned that the Holy See is "deeply concerned" about "excesses" in interfaith religious services, which "give rise to great wonderment, and indeed bewilderment," among the faithful. "Until the Concilian Commission has established definitive norms regarding communicatio in sacris (worship in common), participation in such ceremonies should be avoided...
...renewal on the ecumenical movement, the World Council of Churches was acting on the need. At the end of its annual meeting last week in Enugu, Nigeria, the council's 100-man Central Committee voted to establish with the Vatican a joint working committee to discover areas of interfaith cooperation...
...Without a dissenting vote the church representatives decided to set up an eight-man working group that will eventually meet with a six-man committee appointed by the Vatican to discuss such issues as collaboration in charitable endeavors, joint theological studies on ecumenical relations, ways to resolve such abrasive interfaith problems as mixed marriages and religious liberty. The central committee also approved the idea of a regular exchange of visits between Rome and World Council headquarters in Geneva, which could lead to an exchange of permanent representatives...
Theological University. The success of the Union so far gives promise that it will grow. G.T.U. officials are currently discussing the possibility of bringing in Southern Baptist, Jesuit, Mormon, Missouri Synod Lutheran and Jewish institutions. They are also thinking of an interfaith program in advanced pastoral studies. Eventually, they expect there will be some common courses on the undergraduate level, and that the participating seminaries will, in effect, become member colleges of the nation's first theological university...