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Documents of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on the Theology of Marriage
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These fonds include all documents in our database that are associated with a particular dialogue commission.
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Please note:
This is a work-in-progress. We are adding the scanned documents from the archive to this database, but there is considerable work to be done. Access to the complete archive for each dialogue commission is also available.
The Commission was established jointly in 1967, on the one part by the Roman Catholic Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity with the approval of His Holiness Pope Paul VI and on the other part by the Most Reverend and Right Honorable A.M. Ramsey Lord Archbishop of Canterbury on behalf of the Anglican Communion.
The problems arising from mixed marriages had been recognized as one of the chief of those “practical questions” referred to in the Joint Declaration made by the Pope and the Archbishop in Rome in March 1966; and when the Anglican-Roman Catholic Joint Preparatory Commission met at Gazzada in January 1967, one of its first acts was to recommend the setting up of a special commission to consider the Theology of Marriage with special reference to Mixed Marriages. The recommendation was immediately accepted on both sides.
The Commission met six times: at St. George’s House, Windsor Castle, from 16 to 18 April, 1968; at Pineta Sacchetti, Rome, from 27 to 30 November, 1968; in London, from 22 to 25 November, 1971; at Haywards Heath, at the Priory of Our Lady of Good Counsel, from 9 to 12 April, 1973; at the Divinity Hostel, Dublin, from 1 to 5 April, 1974; and at Casa Cardinale Piazza, Venice, from 23 to 27 June, 1975, when this final report was given unanimous approval.
The Commission was originally identified as a sub-commission of the Joint Preparatory Committee. However, after the ARCJPC issued the Malta Report in 1968, the sub-commission on Mixed Marriage was renamed as the Commission on the Theology of Mixed Marriage. The first documents bear protocol numbers ARCJPC-MM 1 to ARCJPC-MM 10, while subsequent documents use the acronym ARCCM. Records of the ARCCM are housed in the Lambeth Palace Library in the collection of the Church of England’s Council on Foreign Relations (ref no. CFR RC 186A).
This page lists all documents added to the IARCCUM.org site in order by original publication date. In addition to the documents prepared for the dialogue commissions, there are a number of additional documents that are included because of their relevance to the dialogues.
News articles are not generally included in the dialogue collection. See the news index to access these materials.
ARCCM 14: George Kilpatrick. The New Testament Teaching on Marriage and Divorce. (1955). https://iarccum.org/doc/1273.
ARCCM 14A: R. G. Heard. The Gospel Passages Dealing with the Dissolution of Marriage. (1955). https://iarccum.org/doc/35.
ARCJPC/MM 2: Mixed Marriage: Status Quaestionis. (26 Feb. 1967). https://iarccum.org/doc/1257.
ARCJPC/MM 3B: Report on the Problem of Mixed Marriages: Provisional text. (4 Mar. 1967). https://iarccum.org/doc/1260.
ARCJPC/MM 3C: Mixed Marriages: In the Light of the Word of God, Theological Aspects, Canonical Aspects, Pastoralia of mixed homes. (4 Mar. 1967). https://iarccum.org/doc/1261.
ARCJPC/MM 3D: Peter Hebblethwaite. Mixed Marriages. (1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1262.
ARCJPC/MM 1: G. R. Dunstan. Introduction to the Principal Documents at Present Before the Sub-Commission. (16 Apr. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1256.
ARCJPC/MM 3: Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on the Theology of Marriage. First Interim Report of the Joint Anglican/Roman Catholic Sub-Commission on the Theology of Marriage and its Application to Mixed Marriages. (26 Apr. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1258.
ARCJPC/MM 3A: Joint Press Release following the first meeting of the Sub-Commission on Mixed Marriage. (26 Apr. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1259.
ARCJPC/MM 4: Thomas Holland. Letter from the Right Reverend Thomas Holland, Bishop of Salford, to the Clergy in his Diocese. (30 July 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1263.
ARCJPC/MM 6: Henry G. J. Beck. Proposed Pastoral Guidelines for Inter-Christian Marriages. (Oct. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1265.
ARCCM 15: Willy Rordorf. Marriage in the New Testament and in the Early Church. (21 Nov. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1274.
ARCJPC/MM 10: George Simms; Ernest Unterkoefler. Preparation for the Second Meeting of ARCCM. (27 Nov. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1269.
ARCJPC/MM 7: Donald H. V. Hallock. The Pastoral Approach to the Problems of Mixed Marriage. (27 Nov. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1266.
ARCJPC/MM 8: G. R. Dunstan. The Relation of the Encyclical 'Humanae Vitae' to the Sub-Commission's Task. (27 Nov. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1267.
ARCJPC/MM 9: Langton D. Fox. The Relation of the Encyclical 'Humanae Vitae' to the Sub-Commission's Task. (27 Nov. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1268.
ARCJPC/MM 5: George Simms; Ernest Unterkoefler. Second Report of the ARCCM with Letter to the Right Reverend Mgr. J.G.M. Willebrands. (30 Nov. 1968). https://iarccum.org/doc/1264.
ARCCM 11: George Simms; Ernest Unterkoefler. Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal J.G.M. Willebrands with the Third Report of the ARCCM. (25 Nov. 1971). https://iarccum.org/doc/1270.
ARCCM 11A: Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on the Theology of Marriage. Third Report of the ARCCM (revised). (25 Nov. 1971). https://iarccum.org/doc/10.
ARCCM 13: Notes on Conversation at Lambeth concerning Mixed Marriages. (4 Oct. 1972). https://iarccum.org/doc/1272.
ARCCM 19: Aloysius M. Ambrozic. Indissolubility of Marriage in the New Testament: Law or Ideal? (1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/1278.
ARCCM 27A: Results of Questionnaire of Anglican/Roman Catholic Mixed Marriages. (1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/1293.
ARCCM 29: The Privilege of the Faith: A Summary 1924-73. (1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/2200.
ARCCM 16: J. R. Lucas. Notes on the doctrine of a metaphysical vinculum. (9 Apr. 1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/1275.
ARCCM 17: John Macquarrie. On the Nature of the Marriage Bond (Vinculum Conjugale). (9 Apr. 1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/1276.
ARCCM 18: Helen Oppenheimer. Is the Marriage Bond An Indissoluble Vinculum? (9 Apr. 1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/1277.
ARCCM 20: Michael Sharratt. Words and Bonds. (9 Apr. 1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/1279.
ARCCM 21: Henry Wansbrough. Divorce in the New Testament. (9 Apr. 1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/1280.
ARCCM 22: Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on the Theology of Marriage. Fourth Report of the ARCCM. (13 Apr. 1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/458.
ARCCM 22A: Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Questionnaire on Anglican-Roman Catholic Mixed Marriages. (Nov. 1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/571.
ARCCM 30: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Instructio Pro Solutione Matrimonii in Favorem Fidei (Instruction on the dissolution of marriage in favour of the faith). (6 Dec. 1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/1289.
ARCCM 25B: English ARC. Marriages Between Anglicans and Roman Catholics. (1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1285.
ARCCM 26: E. Garth Moore. Note by Chancellor of the Commission, Nullity of Marriage and Marriage, Divorce and the Church. (1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1286.
ARCCM 31: Christopher Butler. Vatican II's Ecclesiology. (1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1290.
ARCCM 27: Answers to Questionnaire from Anglican Provinces. (Mar. 1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1287.
ARCCM 23: G. R. Dunstan. The Anglican Understanding of Natural and Sacramental Marriage. (1 Mar. 1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1281.
ARCCM 25: John Coventry. Theological Trends, Interchurch Marriage 1. (The Way 14, no. 2, pp. 141-150, Apr. 1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1283.
ARCCM 24: L. Mason Knox. How important is it to Anglicans that the children of mixed marriages be brought up as members of their own Communion, and why? An Episcopalian’s Response. (1 Apr. 1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1282.
ARCCM 28: Brian O'Higgins. Mixed Marriages: The 'Cautiones.' A Discussion Paper. (Irish Theological Quarterly, v. 41, 1 Apr. 1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1288.
ARCCM 32: Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on the Theology of Marriage. Notes for the Preparation of the Final (Fifth) Report of ARCCM. (5 Apr. 1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/567.
ARCCM 12: Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on the Theology of Marriage. Documents relating to the ARCCM. (3 May 1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1271.
ARCCM 25A: John Coventry. Theological Trends, Interchurch Marriage II. (The Way 14, no. 3, pp. 222-230, July 1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1284.
ARCCM 33: Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on the Theology of Marriage. 1st Draft of the Final Report. (Aug. 1974). https://iarccum.org/doc/1291.
ARCCM 33A: Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on the Theology of Marriage. 2nd Draft of the Final Report. (Apr. 1975). https://iarccum.org/doc/1292.
ARCCM 33B: Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on the Theology of Marriage. Final Report on the Theology of Marriage and its Application to Mixed Marriages. (27 June 1975). https://iarccum.org/doc/11.
Doc 183/76: United States Catholic Conference. Anglican-Catholic Statement on the Theology of Marriage. (3 June 1976). https://iarccum.org/doc/183.
Doc 1594/78: Lambeth Conference. Resolution 34 (1978) - Anglican-Roman Catholic Marriages. (13 Aug. 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/1594.
