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After Five Centuries of Division, Catholics and Lutherans Consider Their Common Heritage
National Catholic Register ^ | 8/21/13 | CHARLOTTE HAYS

Posted on 08/21/2013 5:11:36 PM PDT by ebb tide

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1 posted on 08/21/2013 5:11:36 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

This is nothing new. They’ve been talking like this for a generation. Nothing will ever come of it unless the Lutherans put themselves under the authority of the Pope.


2 posted on 08/21/2013 5:14:23 PM PDT by DManA
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To: ebb tide

just erase history


3 posted on 08/21/2013 5:14:46 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: ebb tide

A sign that the Holy Spirit is at work to bring the Christians back together as Jesus prayed that all His followers will be one.


4 posted on 08/21/2013 5:16:14 PM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: ebb tide

Luther was of the Other


5 posted on 08/21/2013 5:21:21 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Biggirl

The true church of believers transcends current religious groups and denominations. And it always will because THAT is the true unity of believers Christ wants.


6 posted on 08/21/2013 5:21:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Biggirl

Unless the Roman Catholics become Lutherans, I don’t see anything “coming back together” in anyone’s future.


7 posted on 08/21/2013 5:26:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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But still it cannot hurt to have greater respect and support in this age of growing anti-Christian hatred.


8 posted on 08/21/2013 5:27:00 PM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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9 posted on 08/21/2013 5:30:10 PM PDT by narses
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To: Biggirl

I disagree. Rome has dropped all pretenses of trying to convert people to Catholicism. Otherwise, no true Catholic (only my opinion) would talk about “communion” with Lutherans.


10 posted on 08/21/2013 5:31:50 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: Biggirl

They’ve been doing dialogs and meetings together for fifty years.

Local churches have had their pastors and priests have periodic meet and greets and breakfasts once a month, kind of things forever.

It’s like people think denominations live in vacuums. They don’t and everyone in the real world knows that. All the priests and pastors know about all the others in their cities and areas, and they are all mostly civil if not more so.

But to try to twist out of this cordiality, some kindof getting together in terms of beliefs, unless one side is going to cave completely, that just is not going to happen.

You’re instead going to be left with some common-core, sloppy agape, false unity crap that is rightly going to appeal to no one who cares about actual doctrinal truth. But I am sure they’ll have a hell of a praise band whooping up the place.


11 posted on 08/21/2013 5:32:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ebb tide

And if you exclude ELCA, the other Lutheran bodies actually make sure people have a proper understanding of communion, or they ask the person to refrain from taking it.


12 posted on 08/21/2013 5:33:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ebb tide

As I have said on a gazillion threads, what unites us is far greater than what divides us.

I’m a staunch 5-point Calvinist. I also recognize that there are plenty of Catholics who love Jesus and want to serve Him as best they can. There are also plenty of cultural “Catholics” whose faith is completely nonexistent. The very same can be said of Protestants - plenty who love Jesus, plenty who are Christians in name only.

The divides between Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic are nothing more than family squabbles.


13 posted on 08/21/2013 5:38:41 PM PDT by Terabitten (I'd rather have one Walker than fourteen runners.)
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To: Terabitten

no you need to study Catholicism to understand what you are talking about. Also Judaism


14 posted on 08/21/2013 5:43:21 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Good point. And is the Catholic Church talking about “communion” with all Lutheran bodies or just a few of them? If the latter, which bodies?


15 posted on 08/21/2013 5:57:03 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I think they’ve been discussing stuff with a couple different lutheran church bodies in Europe.

Not in America. ELCA is too far left. and LCMS and WELS are never ever going to consider any kind of doctrinal bonding, much less integrate back into, the RCC.


16 posted on 08/21/2013 6:00:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ebb tide

Common heritage - like, ummm, Yashua???


17 posted on 08/21/2013 6:00:48 PM PDT by SkyDancer (A white woman would be accused of racism if she gave birth to a white baby.)
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To: Terabitten

IF you spend time to research the doctrinal differences they are not just “family squabbles”. People that don’t take the time to understand that, throw platitudes and dismiss real theological divides as nothing big at all.


18 posted on 08/21/2013 6:02:56 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Biggirl

wow..think of the political implications...this might work out well.


19 posted on 08/21/2013 6:16:52 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for our country...Pray for America and the brave souls who are defending us!)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Local churches have had their pastors and priests have periodic meet and greets and breakfasts once a month, kind of things forever.

I lived in a small town central New York all of the Churches got together for community outreach. Each of them took a separate area and made that the focus of their ministry so to reduce/ eliminate duplication of effort. All of them participated except for one of the Baptist groups. The Lutherans did the food pantry, two of the other Baptists took care of the clothing/ household items/ etc...

Both the Catholics took care of the Holiday outreach. The best was there was no sheep poaching.

20 posted on 08/21/2013 6:17:55 PM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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