Word: vaticans
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...European trip was neither serene, nor an unqualified success. There was, of course, much more to come. As Ronald and Nancy Reagan prepared to leave Versailles Monday morning, all the big TV spectaculars of their European journey-the President's meeting with Pope John Paul II in the Vatican, his addresses to Britain's Parliament and the West German Bundestag, his horseback ride with Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor Great Park-were yet to occur. So too were the huge anti-Reagan demonstrations being organized by nuclear protesters in Bonn, West Berlin and London...
Although the peace theme captured the headlines of a war-conscious Britain, the long-run significance of the trip will probably be its effect on the fortunes of Christianity in Britain-and on the Vatican's future course on Christian ecumenism. The Pope's agenda reflected not the imperial hand of the Vatican conservative old guard, but the more cosmopolitan touch of Britain's Catholic hierarchy. All observers agreed that the Pope's visit was without doubt his most ecumenical tour. Two significant interchurch services took place in Canterbury and Liverpool, and there were several conferences...
...then that John Paul and Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of world Anglicanism, named a new commission to try to smooth over the tough remaining doctrinal and practical problems that stand in the way of reunion of the two branches of Christianity, in particular the Vatican's attitude toward the validity of Anglican orders and the question of the sharing of the Eucharist...
...First Vatican Council of 1869-70 may have set back by several centuries the chances of restoring unity under Rome by proclaiming the Pope's personal infallibility-when he declares ex cathedra (from the throne) on a matter of faith and morals. It also insisted on the Pope's direct jurisdiction over each and every believer on earth. This was, perhaps, an improvement on the papal bull of 1302 that declared, "It is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff." The 1870 decree caused dissension even within the ranks of Catholic...
...have jurisdiction to intervene in any part of the church under certain circumstances, and could issue infallible teachings on his own, with the proviso that they would later need to be received and recognized by the church. If anything, this accord was more unsettling for Anglicans than for the Vatican...