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After nearly 50 years of discourse between the Catholic and Anglican communions, the official dialogue body wants to fine-tune how it studies the differences and similarities between two churches which both call themselves Catholic. “ARCIC III hasn’t proved itself yet,” Sir David Moxon, Anglican co-chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, told The Catholic Register following an ecumenical evensong on Pentecost Sunday. This third stage of the dialogue has been meeting since 2011, but has yet to publish a major document. It is currently studying how the Church arrives at moral teaching. The official dialogue sponsored by the Vatican and...

There has been quite a bit of discussion of the latest ARCIC report--this one on the views on the Virgin Mary. Here are two articles from the Church of England Newspaper that I found interesting: End in sight to divisions over Virgin Mary? Mary: a question of respect Both of these are rather perceptive articles; as End in sight to divisions over Virgin Mary? states, The document is now to be put to the two Churches. If they come to agreement on this it would place the questions about authority in a new ecumenical context and represent a fundamental change...

Roman Catholics issue warning to Eames Number: 5724 Date: July 1, A right of appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury may be needed to resolve disputes in the Anglican Communion, argue a group of Roman Catholic and Anglican leaders in a submission to the Lambeth Commission led by Archbishop Robin Eames. The submission by a sub-commission of the Inter Anglican and Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission, claims that the crisis represented by the consecration of a practising homosexual bishop in the United States could seriously damage relationships between the two Churches. They argue that the current situation suggests...

ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE ACNS 3693 | LAMBETH PALACE | 29 NOVEMBER 2003 ARCIC Co-chairman to step down [ACNS source: Lambeth Palace] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has received the resignation of the presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (USA), Bishop Frank Griswold, as Anglican Co-chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission. Following recent events in the life of ECUSA, Bishop Griswold has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury to announce his decision, in the interests of "not jeopardizing the present and future life and work of the Commission". In his response, Archbishop Williams thanked Bishop Griswold for...