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Passau, Germany, Jun 10, 2021 / 03:35 am (CNA).
An influential theologian considered to be close to Pope Francis has said that he is “very worried” about the German Catholic Church’s controversial “S.
GARRISON, N.Y., May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Â We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship him (cf. Matthew 2:2) is the theme for the 2022 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. It was discerned by the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) in Beirut, Lebanon, and finds its origins in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:1-12). The star in the east above Judea led the Magi to the birthplace of Jesus Christ, king and savior of all humanity, said Fr. James Loughran, SA, Director of Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute. Two thousand years later, it still beckons us, lighting the way to Christ, who is the light of the world.
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Remembering 16 April 2021
Australian Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, passed away on Saturday, 10 April, in Newcastle, Australia at the age of 96.
Born on 5 July 1924 in Sydney, Australia, to non-Catholic parents, Edward Idris Cassidy’s family split when he was just two years old. He was entrusted to the care of his paternal grandparents and, although he had been baptized into the Church of England, his grandmother brought him into the Catholic Church and he was baptized anew at Saint John the Baptist Church in Gulgong. As a boy, he attended both Catholic and
Top Ecumenism Official “Astonished” by German Intercommunion Push Top Ecumenism Official “Astonished” by German Intercommunion Push
German bishops seem intent on proceeding despite Vatican concerns
By CNA staff / ITV staff
Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference
Cardinal
Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, expressed “astonishment” January 26 at a statement by the Ecumenical Study Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians (known by its German acronym, ÖAK).
The ÖAK published the 26-page statement on January 24 in response to a critical assessment of the group’s proposal for a “reciprocal Eucharistic hospitality” between Catholics and Protestants by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
.Australian Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy died April 10 at the age of 96. He is pictured with German Lutheran Bishop Christian Krause at the signing of The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in Augsburg, Germany, Oct. 31, 1999. Cardinal Cassidy, representing the Vatican, and Bishop Krause, president of the Lutheran World Federation, signed the document marking the resolution of a doctrinal dispute that sparked the Reformation. (CNS photo/Ralph Orlowski, Reuters)
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Australian Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, a longtime Vatican diplomat and former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, died April 10 at the age of 96 in Newcastle, Australia.