The Catholic Church excommunicated Luther. The Lutheran Augsburg Confession calls the papacy the ‘anti-Christ.’ But both sides are hopeful about the future of Christian unity.
Ecumenism
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Faith and activism in the City of Angels
‘City of Dignity,’ by Sean T. Dempsey, S.J., tells a story of how progressive religious leaders, organizations and institutions worked to shape Los Angeles into a city where dignity flourished through their grassroots organizing and activism in the decades after World War II until the mid-1990s.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Scorsese ‘has his crucifix. I have a cross’: Paul Schrader on his faith and new film ‘Master Gardener’
His stories often exploit the logical but worst possible outcomes of his characters’ spiraling depravity or despair. But Schrader’s faith always informs even his most profane films.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis adds Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS to Catholic saint calendar
Pope Francis announced the inscription of the 21 workers, most of them Egyptians, in the Roman Martyrology, the compendium of saints celebrated liturgically in the Catholic Church.
Posted inFaith, News
Over 50 Anglicans celebrate liturgy at Pope Francis’ cathedral after “breakdown in communication”
A “breakdown in communication” led to permission being given to a group of Anglican clergy to celebrate the Eucharist in Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The Synod is missing something essential: other churches
“Top-down” ecumenism has not reduced the distance between the Catholic church and other churches. We need grassroots ecumenical relationships now.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis arrives in South Sudan with a message that ‘may appear blunt and direct’ to its leaders
Pope Francis is on an ecumenical pilgrimage for reconciliation and peace with Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury; and Iain Greenshields, the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis prays for victims of church bombing in Congo two weeks before visit
Authorities say Sunday’s bombing in Kasindi, a town in North Kivu province, killed at least 14 people and injured more than 60.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
I’m a pro-life and pro-democracy activist. And I’m worried about America.
Our crisis of democracy is also a crisis of faith. A new group is making the case for politics informed by the Gospel and by Catholic social teaching.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: The way Catholics calculate the date of Easter could be changing
For Thanksgiving week, “Inside the Vatican” is bringing you a brief update on a few of the top Vatican stories.