“The doors are open,” said Sternberg, who is also co-president of the German Church’s controversial “Synodal Way,” together with the German Catholic bishops’ conference president Bishop Georg Bätzing ...

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said Pope Francis’ visit to a Lutheran church in Rome last month was a “sign of hope” for full visible unity, but that his comments were misunderstood as giving the green ...

In an interfaith age, Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy pray together and picket together, and hardly a church exists that has not been preached to by a minister of another faith. But there is a ...

Pope Francis said Thursday that the German bishops' debate on the reception of the Eucharist by the non-Catholic spouses of Catholics, also referred to as intercommunion, should be decided by diocesan ...

Pope Francis exchanged the sign of peace with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput during the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia Sept. 27. (Credit: CNS ...

“I’ve never heard of a report of such import for the church being accepted with so little argument,” said a stunned Anglican canon last week. The Convocations of Canterbury and York, traditional ...

According to Reuters, some Catholic traditionalists are all bent out of shape by Pope Francis' announced visit to Sweden on October 31 to join with Lutherans and launch the commemoration of the 500th ...

L’intercommunion est la possibilité pour un chrétien de communier dans une autre confession, et pour une Église d’accueillir à sa table eucharistique un fidèle venu d’une autre Église chrétienne.

In Lake Wobegon land, where I teach, ecumenism is largely a Lutheran-Catholic affair, cemented by the shared sacraments of beer and ice-fishing. My students are not much concerned with the subtleties ...