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Pope Francis and members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality attend the synod's final working session in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican
Final synod document is magisterial, pope says (26 Nov 2024)

The Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at San Bartolomeo – a church dedicated to the memory of 20th and 21st Century Martyrs in Rome - as part of the ecumenical summit 'Growing Together'
The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a statement announcing his resignation (12 Nov 2024)

Bishop Anthony Ball
Anglican Centre in Rome announces new Director (7 Nov 2024)

During the 2024 Synod, Pope Francis leads the fraternal delegates and other Synod participants into the Vatican's Protomartyr's Square for an Ecumenical Prayer Service
Bishop of Chichester sees lessons for Church of England in Rome synod (17 Oct 2024)

An Ecumenical Prayer Vigil took place on Friday, 11 October, in the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs at the Vatican, attended by Pope Francis and participants in the second session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops from 2-27 October 2024
Ecumenical Prayer Vigil on the occasion of the Synod 2024 (14 Oct 2024)

October ~ 2013 ~ Anglican-Roman Catholic news & opinion

Vatican’s rules on eucharistic sharing could be further relaxed
7 October 2013 • Persistent link: iarccum.org/?p=3030 •
Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham is the Roman Catholic co-chair of ARCIC III

The Roman Catholic co-chair of the Third Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III) has expressed his personal view that, seeing how in 1993 certain relaxations were made in the Vatican’s rules on eucharistic sharing, further relaxation is possible. Speaking last week to the Gazette editor following a joint session of the National Advisers’ Committee on Ecumenism of the Irish (Roman Catholic) Episcopal Conference and representatives of the Church of Ireland’s Commission for Christian Unity and Dialogue, at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, the Most Rev. Bernard Longley — Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham and ARCIC III co-chair — referred to the changes in “specified circumstances” set out in the 1993 Ecumenism Directory.