Timothy George: Catholics and Baptists Together

From Christianity Today online. A hopeful trend here between Protestants and Catholics. Pray for the unity of the one holy, catholic, and apostolic church.

UnknownI participated in this recent synod as a fraternal delegate representing the Baptist World Alliance. The conveners asked the fraternal delegates to make a brief presentation to the synod, offer written comments on the proceedings, and participate in small groups to help draft the final documents. Given the distant and even hostile relations between Catholics and evangelicals in the past, this represents a remarkable degree of openness on the part of the Catholic Church. Though Vatican II documents call non-Catholic Christians “separated brothers,” the synod decidedly emphasized fraternity. This was evident in three major themes of the synod.

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