Vatican cardinal hopes for new joint declaration with Lutherans
October 31, 2014
Speaking at a meeting of the Lutheran World Federation, the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity expressed his hopes for the upcoming 5th centenary of the Protestant Reformation.
Cardinal Kurt Koch said that he hopes that the ecumenical commemoration will highlight 50 years of Catholic-Lutheran dialogue, whose high point has been the 1999 Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, and lead to deeper unity.
Cardinal Koch expressed his desire for “a further joint statement on the Church, the Eucharist, and ministry,” according to the Italian Protestant news agency NEV.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Nov. 01, 2014 3:58 PM ET USA
Catastrophe yes, but it did spark the Counter-Reformation. The Council of Trent unified the Church and explained the Sacraments in a way unassailable by Protestant apologists. The Counter-Reformation produced the Roman Catechism, for more than four centuries the guide to catechesis in the Western Church. In 1999 how could the Lutherans not agree with the Council's exquisite description of the manner of justification--faith prompted by God, responded to by man, and returned to him as a virtue?
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Posted by: filioque -
Nov. 01, 2014 2:00 AM ET USA
Perhaps in all the hoopla about the 5th Centenary of the Protestant Reformation, someone will mention that it was one of the greatest catastrophes in the history of the Church.
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Posted by: Jason C. -
Oct. 31, 2014 1:12 PM ET USA
Better hurry up before there aren't any Lutherans left.
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Posted by: -
Oct. 31, 2014 1:01 PM ET USA
Can Lutheran Ordinariates be on the horizon?
