News & Opinion

2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1967
1966


• Malines Conversations Group meets in Malta (29 May 2023)

• Archbishop of York visits Pope Francis (24 May 2023)

• Coronation ceremony marks turning point in Catholic-Anglican relations (6 May 2023)

• Pope Francis gifts relics from the True Cross to King Charles III (19 Apr 2023)

• Anna Rowlands seconded to Synod Secretariat and Dicastery for Integral Human Development (21 Mar 2023)

October ~ 2014 ~ Anglican-Roman Catholic news & opinion

Ecumenism needs to get more pastoral
6 October 2014 • Persistent link: iarccum.org/?p=1491
Saint Paul University theology professor, Dr Catherine Clifford

Fifty years on, it’s time for the ecumenical movement to take on a more pastoral mission and worry less about trying to untie the knots of history and theology, Saint Paul University theology professor Catherine Clifford told a small gathering of bishops, clergy, and laypeople in Toronto commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on Ecumenism. Clifford and Anglican ecumenist Archdeacon Bruce Myers were the featured speakers at a prayer service marking the anniversary sponsored by the Ontario Diocesan Directors for Ecumenical and Interfaith Affairs and the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario. “We’ve lost sight of the pastoral importance of ecumenism,” Clifford said. From interchurch marriages to dwindling communities that can’t survive in isolation, the Church’s ecumenical mission is urgent, she said. “A perception that it (ecumenism) has been the domain of professional ecumenists” must be overcome, said Myers.