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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...

Growing Together in Unity and Mission is being published as an agreed statement of IARCCUM (the International Anglican - Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission), and is to be published under the Commission’s authority, not as an official statement of the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. It is being put forward to foster discussion and reflection, as the statement clearly states.The statement was recently completed by IARCCUM, and is scheduled to be published by the Commission as soon as a Catholic commentary to accompany the document has been completed; an Anglican commentary has already been prepared for publication....

Official Anglican - Roman Catholic group counts cost of ECUSA actions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 6, 2004 Contact: Cynthia P. Brust 202-296-5360 202-412-8721 The Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, Moderator of the Anglican Communion Network (ACN), today commended a document submitted to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lambeth Commission by a sub-commission of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission (IARCCUM). The ad hoc sub-commission was initiated by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to address the current crisis in the Anglican Communion and its affect on the ecumenical community. At the center of its report is a repeated call...