Vatican Calls for Liturgies with Protestants on Reformation Day

Church Militant ^ | 10/31/19 | William Mahoney

[marshmallow]

Catholic dioceses are responding to the call

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholic dioceses in the United States and Canada are officially participating in ecumenical prayer services with Lutherans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ), a document that some view as unifying and others as erroneous.

Members of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) signed the JDDJ on Oct. 31, 1999, having chosen Reformation Day for the event.

Reformation Day commemorates German monk and priest Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral on All Hallow's Eve, marking the beginning of one of the biggest splits in the history of Christendom.

The archdiocese of Milwaukee hosted "a special prayer service for the 20th anniversary of the Catholic-Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" on Wednesday.

The archdiocese of Edmonton will join with Lutherans, Anglicans and other Christian denominations on Nov. 3 to "pray and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification."

The archdiocese of Vancouver will host an ecumenical prayer service with the British Columbia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada on Nov. 3 "in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the JDDJ."

The list of Catholic dioceses and parishes similiarly taking part continues.

[dirtymac]

Yes with Protestants, but not Christians.

[GCFADG]

Will there be any jungle savages?

[MrEdd]

I am thinking that nobody in Christendom wants fellowship with the Roman Catholics until after they get their problems with pagan idols in check. Maybe the PCUSA if they are still around.

[BillyBoy]

>> I am thinking that nobody in Christendom wants fellowship with the Roman Catholics until after they get their problems with pagan idols in check. <<

You realize veneration of icons and images of the Virgin Mary is a HUGE part of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition and they devout a entire holy day year (Sunday of Orthodoxy) to celebrate the defeat of iconclasts (icon breakers) claiming the veneration of icons was pagan idolotry.

There are about 300-500 million eastern Orthodox Chrisitans worldwide, which is more than the membership of any protestant denomination.

I'm guessing they are "not Christian" in your eyes.

[ameribbean expat]

Jello salad for all.

[ebb tide]

Ping

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

These are phony “Lutheran” churches,not real ones.

[MrEdd]

From your post, You have told me that you are okay with the pagan idols at the Amazon synod and have decided to defend the practice.

I am not guessing. You just did exactly that and you shed every possible pretense that you might have meant anything else.

[Mom MD]

As a confessional Lutheran, no thanks. This is the liberal bunch of Lutherans the Vatican is cozying up to. As a conservative Lutheran our differences are too great to share a pulpit. It disrespects both Lutherans and catholics to pretend otherwise

[Lee N. Field]

Catholic dioceses in the United States and Canada are officially participating in ecumenical prayer services with Lutherans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ), a document that some view as unifying and others as erroneous.

Members of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) signed the JDDJ on Oct. 31, 1999, having chosen Reformation Day for the event.

LCMS and WELS guys participating?

(Didn't think so.)

[Hieronymus]

Here is a good scene out of Becket of something that might be tried for the sake of diversity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRt2cKvJLlE

(It’s the excommunication scene)

[ebb tide]

These are phony “Lutheran” churches,not real ones.

They're all phony.

[ebb tide]

On such conditions it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot in any way participate in their reunions and that Catholics cannot in any way adhere or grant aid to such efforts. If they should do so, they would give authority to a false Christian religion completely foreign to the one Church of Christ. But could we suffer which would be utterly iniquitous the truth and indeed the divine revealed truth to be brought down to the level of bargains? For it is the safeguarding of revealed truth now that is at stake (Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, 1928).

[Salvation]

Ridiculous.

[BillyBoy]

I didn't mention the Amazon Synod at all in my post, but rather a completely different topic about hundreds of millions of Orthodox Christians do the same type of "idol worship" that protestants continually bash Catholicism for and wrongly claim that only "the Catholics" venerate objects and "the rest" of Christendom does not.

But if MrEdd wants to insist I mentioned or somehow endorsed the Amazon Synod anyway, and start a series of "Have you stopped beating your wife, sir?" line of questioning, this discussion is over. I have no interest in responding to ad hominem attacks. Sorry, not falling for it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

In non-Caucus threads, comments will quickly devolve into "Have you stopped worshiping Mary?" and "Have you stopped cannibalizing Jesus Christ?" Your wife is not safe from a verbal beating, either, if the open thread goes on long enough.

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Happy All Saints' Day`

[Mom MD]

It’s ok ebb. We feel the same way about you.

[Biggirl]

Over at Church Militant website,I had seen a YouTube video coming from one of the leaders of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches, I believe the Byzantine Rite calling out PF on the issue of the false god(s).Let’s just say the Byzantine branch was not very happy.