At its United States Faith and Order Conference in Oberlin, the World Council of Churches drew up a series of section reports which it referred to member churches for study. The issues debated in ...

Pundits, academics, and church leaders alike decry our current age as a time of partisan rancor and disunity. People, we are told, are locked in “echo chambers,” and they refuse to listen to those ...

Catholics certainly recognize Protestants as fellow Christians, who have (according to the Council of Trent) been validly baptized (provided only that it was trinitarian). Holy Communion is a somewhat ...

NOTHING is more uncertain than prophecy about the profound changes of direction which, from time to time, overtake the human spirit. Who would have guessed, as the seventeenth century drew to an end, ...

Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, gives an Advent reflection to Pope Francis and members of the Roman Curia Dec. 4, 2020, in the Vatican audience hall. Because of the ...

Yet, all too often, the focus on Christian unity turns to doctrine and institutional unity, distracting us from the more significant implications of Communion. Jesus offered the table as a vision for ...

Two Churches of Christ groups are looking for ways to make sweet music together. But disagreement on whether the Bible sanctions the use of instrumental music in worship services thus far has muted ...

Hagia Sophia. (AINA) -- In June 2021, Patriarch Sako shared a reflection on the difficulty of achieving unity among Christians, especially in Iraq. The differences among the churches are not only ...

The Apostles Peter and Paul have two feasts each. Their principal one is shared on June 29, and then each has his own, too. The Conversion of Paul is marked on Jan. 25 and the Chair of St. Peter on ...

Perhaps the time has come. Maybe we are at least a good bit closer to being ready than we have been before. For what? For Christian unity. Not the kind so terribly feared by many on the Christian ...

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