Thursday, September 4, 2014

Baptist-Catholic dialogue report in PCPCU Information Service

The most recent issue of the Information Service bulletin published by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (No. 142, 2013/II) includes in its "Documentation Supplement" the full text of "The Word of God in the Life of the Church: A Report of International Conversations between the Catholic Church and the Baptist World Alliance, 2006-2010," along with an official Catholic commentary on the document written by Thomas A. Baima. The issue can be downloaded in its entirety in PDF from the Vatican web site; the report was previously published in an issue of the American Baptist Quarterly and as an HTML document on the Vatican site.

Other articles and notices in the issue are of interest to followers of ecumenical developments. The Table of Contents appears below:

Pope Francis and Ecumenism (July-December 2013)

Visit to Rome of His Holiness Moran Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, Catholicos of the East and Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, 4-6 September 2013

Tenth General Assembly of the World Council of Churches
Busan, South Korea, 30 October – 8 November 2013 

Visit of a Delegation of the Holy See to the Ecumenical Patriarchate for the Feast of St Andrew, 28 November – 1 December 2013
Message of Pope Francis to His Holiness Bartholomew 
Address of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 
Ecumenical News
International Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue: Sixth Round of Conversations
Baltimore, MD, USA, 13-19 July 2013 
Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews

Documentation Supplement

The Word of God in the Life of the Church
A Report of International Conversations between the Catholic Church and the Baptist World Alliance, 2006-2010 
Commentary on "The Word of God in the Life of the Church"
A Catholic Reflection on the Report of the International Conversations between the Catholic Church and the Baptist World Alliance 2006-2010, by Thomas A. Baima

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for the heads up on this, Steven. Much appreciated.

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