Posted on 08/12/2017 7:16:17 PM PDT by ebb tide
Wolfgang Huber, former Council President of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), believes in a "breakthrough" at the communion of Protestants and Catholics to the Ecumenical Church Day of 2021. "I can not imagine that we will celebrate this church day without A breakthrough has been achieved in the area of Eucharistic hospitality, "said the former bishop of Berlin in the interview of the" Weser-Kurier "(Saturday). Until the event in Frankfurt am Main 2021 something must move.
"Machistort des Papstes" less promising
According to Huber, the next steps in the Eucharist and the Lord's Supper will be "decentralized". "My feeling is that Pope Francis wants to broaden the scope of individual bishops' conferences for ecumenically relevant decisions, and sees this path as a more promising one as a central path for the whole world church and a breakthrough through a pope's power," said Huber.
The former bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz was 75 years old on Saturday. Berlin's Archbishop Heiner Koch congratulated him with a congratulatory letter: Koch thanked him especially for the "strong accents" which he had placed both in the Protestant church and in the ecumenism. He praised Huber as a "strong integrator" and recalled that the fusion of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg with the Evangelical Church of the Silesian Oberlausitz fell in his office in 2004.
Huber was born on 12 August 1942 in Strasbourg. From 1994 to 2009 he was a bishop of Berlin, and from 2003 to 2009 he was the presidency of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Before that, he was himself president of the church. In his own words, however, it was self-evident for him to leave the office before his bishop's election. "For me the church day movement is characterized by the fact that it is a lay movement that cooperates with the Church, but on the basis of reciprocal freedom", he explained. At the Kirchentag this year in Berlin and Wittenberg you got the feeling of a joint event. "From the old counterpart of the church and the church day nothing was visible to the outside." He wanted something more friction, however. "Friction generates fire," says Huber. (JHE / KNA)
In your dreams.
The New Testament refers to all believers as saints.
So, Pope Ebb Tide, you now get to decide not only who are valid Popes but who are “saints”, too? I can see why most FRoman Catholics ignore you these days.
Nope. On this thread....and others.
I don’t decide anything. I just practice my faith.
Still stalking?
I agree with boatbums....I can see why other Roman Catholics are ignoring you.
You said:
Explain how it is you "don't decide anything"?
Ask John Pau II. He was the one who decided on changing the rules; not I.
How many times can a sixth grader say, “I might add”, in one sentence?
You can’t even come up with original material!
Pope St Pius X is the only pope canonized in the twentieth century.
It’s a fact, not my personal decision.
You don’t consider the bible to be original material?
I’’m not surprised.
As I said earlier, two to three heretics gathered together do not make a church. Go talk amongst yourselves.
Ask John Pau II. He was the one who decided on changing the rules; not I.
You mean Pope John Paul II? John Paul II was canonized on 27 April 2014, together with Pope John XXIII. Both twentieth century. What about Pope Paul VI? He is already well on his way to canonization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI#Beatification). He's a twentieth century pope. Then you have Pope Pius XII. He's been named "venerable" and was also a twentieth century pope.
So, let me get this straight...you decide on who is a valid Pope, who is a valid "saint" and which RC "rules" you will accept or not. Sure sounds like you do the deciding no matter how much you deny it or weasel word it.
I’m not worried about what renegade RCs think of me. How ‘bout you?
Nope. Can't even keep you centuries right, can you? No wonder you're so bad with scripture.
Congratulations --- that is truly the dumbest thing I have *ever* read on the internet.
Religion may not be a prerequisite to Heaven, but it has surely saved a soul or two...
On 11 December 1983, John Paul II participated in an ecumenical service in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rome,[209] the first papal visit ever to a Lutheran church. The visit took place 500 years after the birth of Martin Luther, the German Augustinian monk who initiated the Protestant Reformation.
Pope John Paul II is not one of my favorite popes.
Not in the least. Now, on the other hand the pope better watch out.
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