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...international Protestant leader has added a new item to the crowded agenda for ecumenical discussion between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Writing in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, the Rev. Lukas Vischer, top staff theologian at the Geneva-based World Council of Churches, criticizes the political status of Vatican City, the 108.7-acre enclave in Rome where Roman Catholicism is headquartered...
...Vischer says that King Louis XIV's purported remark, "I am the state," would "hardly be an exaggeration on the lips of the Pope," who is an absolute monarch in his postage-stamp realm. Vischer also argues that Vatican City's existence as a sovereign state limits the church's readiness to support anti-establishment political movements...
...book is the joint product of 36 respected Protestant and Catholic theologians, most of them German and German-Swiss, who were commissioned to write it by Europe's Herder publishing house. The Catechism grew out of conversations at Vatican Council II between the Rev. Lukas Vischer, the top theologian at the World Council of Churches, and his friend Father Johannes Feiner, who was later appointed to the Pope's theological commission. Although Vischer and Feiner edited the book, it lacks official Protestant status, and the Vatican has made no comment...
Justification for the historic step came from Swiss Reformed Theologian Lukas Vischer, 34, in a report on the third session of the Vatican Council. Vischer, a World Council observer at Vatican II since its beginning, argued that despite the reluctance of some conservative Catholics to build links with other churches, the council's decree on ecumenism "is an obvious effort to overcome the estrangement of centuries and bring about a relationship of mutual respect and understanding. Whether we like it or not, we find ourselves in fellowship with the Roman Catholic Church. Withdrawal into our own domestic affairs...
...Berlin, the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, named as its delegate Dr. Edmund Schlink, a Lutheran ecumenical scholar from Heidelberg University. Meeting in Paris, the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches agreed to send two observers, and named as one of them Dr. Lukas Vischer from the council's permanent secretariat in Geneva. An expert on Catholicism, Dr. Vischer is little known in ecumenical circles. He is an ecclesiastical technician, capable of accurate theological reporting, but he clearly does not have the prestige or stature to speak for the World Council in Rome...