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"Pope warns Anglican leader on new obstacles to ecumenical progress
Vatican, Oct. 06 (CWNews.com) - Pope John Paul II met on Saturday with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and warned him of "new and serious difficulties" in Catholic-Anglican relations.
Archbishop Rowan Williams, the worldwide leader of the Anglican communion, met with the Holy Father for the first time on October 4 at the Vatican. The Pope told the new Anglican leader that despite the firm commitment of the Catholic Church to ecumenical progress, recent steps by the Church of England on "essential matters of faith and morals" had created new difficulties. He was obviously referring to the Anglican decisions to ordain women as priests and to ordain openly homosexual bishops.
The Pope thanked Archbishop Williams-- the fourth Anglican primate with whom he has met during his pontificate-- for the visit, which keeps alive a tradition of meetings between the Bishop of Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury. That tradition, John Paul observed, dates back to the 6th century, when Pope Gregory the Great named St. Augustine as the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
The relationship between Rome and Canterbury was entirely severed for several centuries, the Pope continued, but its restoration has begun in the past few decades. "As we give thanks for the progress that has already been made," the Pontiff said, "we must also recognize the new and serious difficulties that have arisen on the path to unity." He urged the Anglican leader to recognize that in an age dominated by secularism, "the Church must ensure that the deposit of faith is proclaimed in its integrity and preserved from erroneous and misguided interpretations."
Archbishop Williams, in his turn, praised the Pope for his long years of commitment to "a patient and fraternal dialogue on the Petrine ministry, a sign of generosity and openness."
In a press conference that following his 12-minute private talk with the Holy Father, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of the crisis that has arisen within the Anglican communion since the appointment of an openly homosexual bishop in the United States. "We are conscious of the ecumenical implications," he told reporters in Rome. "During these days in Rome we have listened attentively to what we have been told." Prior to his meeting with Pope John Paul, Archbishop Williams had received a similar admonition from Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, who had reminded him that the ordination of homosexual bishops posed problems not only for Anglicans, but for the Christian community in general.
The new Archbishop of Canterbury-- who was installed in February -- has summoned the leaders of the worldwide Anglican communion to a general discussion of the crisis that they face. Several leading Anglican primates, particularly in Africa, have threatened to break with the Church of England over the acceptance of homosexuality.
Shortly before completing his own term as Archbishop of Canterbury, Williams' predecessor, Dr. George Carey, has warned that disagreements over sexual morality were threatening to sunder the Anglican communion.
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My comments:
...and the Ecumanical beat goes on...
hey, I just heard on 'Art Bell show' that humans came from Mars...developing...see Enterprise Mission.com"> - (maybe Genesis needs a re-write...)
...and what about that religion of peace that worships the 'same' god (but blows-up innocent human beings) - allah...god of what...Hell??
PS...my wife was watching the 'Discovery Channel' about the Gospel of Mary Magdalene...newly discovered scrolls -search Google
In your warped dreams, buddy! What absurdly stereotyped liberal fruitcakes down to the Bobo fashionwear. He should go into prestige gourmet coffees or open a Ben&Jerry's icecream stand. What happened to that pneumatic eschatological apocalypse of "socialism with a human face" they were all waiting for, a sort of cross between Sweden, Burlington, Vermont, and the jungle junta communes of Latin America set to Grateful Dead soundtrack music? Where do they find these people, Harvard or Yale?