Pope: Catholic-Anglican Unity Requires Walking and Working Together
By Cindy Wooden – Divided Christians must recognise how their sins have fractured Christ’s church, be honest about the struggles their communities are facing and be humble...
Category: Ecumenical dialogue
Diakonia Council of Churches Good Friday Service
Diakonia Council of Churches, whose legacy of working towards a just society for more than four decades, is calling all people of faith in the Durban area...
The Three Golden Arches
Without a vision, the people will perish. These resounding words from Proverbs 29:18 have been going round my head as I reflect on three Arches this month:...
Pope: Pride is an Obstacle to Christian Unity
By Cindy Wooden – Divided Christians will never find unity unless they are willing to humble themselves, bowing down to worship Jesus and him alone, Pope Francis...
Tutu: The Catholic Connection
South Africa’s most famous cleric was an Anglican, but Archbishop Desmond Tutu had many ties to the Catholic faith, as Günther Simmermacher points out. Archbishop Desmond Tutu,...
Dialogue Group Calls for Catholic Recognition of Anglican Ordinations
By Cindy Wooden – A group of Catholic and Anglican theologians has publicly called on the Vatican to review and overturn a papal document from 1896 that...
Pope Asks Forgiveness from Orthodox Church
By Cindy Wooden – Like St John Paul II before him, Pope Francis apologised to members of the Orthodox Church of Greece for the ways Catholics over...
Pope: Catholic and Orthodox Must Make their Communion Visible
By Carol Glatz – Catholics and Orthodox Christians must increasingly work together where they can, Pope Francis told Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. “The full unity for...
Global Appeal to Protect Worshippers and Places of Worship
Spearheaded by Jordan’s Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, a group of Arab and international scholars, thinkers and religious figures – Muslim and Christian – have launched a...
Pope and Religious Leaders Plead for Peace at Colosseum
By Cindy Wooden – Standing in front of Rome’s Colosseum, Pope Francis called on members of all the world’s religions to be courageous enough to set aside...
Formal Catholic-Lutheran Dialogue Proceeds
After receiving the gift of a chalice from leaders of the Lutheran World Federation, Pope Francis said divided Christians should suffer because they cannot share the Eucharist,...
Jesus’ Great Wish
Is it a coincidence that it was at the Last Supper, according to John 17:21, that our Lord prayed, “That they may all be one”? On...
