Few subjects aroused the attention of the Council Fathers at Vatican II more than the effort to restore unity among Christians, a task known by the term “ecumenism.” The concern for unity ...

We see changes in the areas of collegiality, liturgy, and ecumenism, where we cannot even call Protestant communities churches any more.” Meanwhile, critics of “the spirit of Vatican II ...

Vatican II makes it absolutely plain that there is ... It is emphasized that “there can be no ecumenism worthy of the name without a change of heart.” Repentance is necessary for sins against ...

The goal of Nicaea—unity in faith among Christians—remains, but the methodology has changed almost 180 degrees and, if we are ...

Before the Second Vatican Council, ecumenism was primarily a Protestant affair. Since Vatican II, Catholics have played a lead role in ecumenical dialogue. How and why that happened, what has been ...

Most of them see the ecumenical movement begun at Vatican II as a tremendous advance in ... who wonder whether the Vatican is turning its back on ecumenism. To understand why the recent C.D.F ...

and ecumenism does not even figure in the glossary. Moreover, if in the theological interpretation of Vatican II one does not include the discontinuities of documents like Dignitatis Humanae on ...

There’s not much of a future in the older ecumenism, as liberal Protestantism has become ever more porous doctrinally and morally.” The 50th anniversary of Vatican II falls in the same week in ...

citing Vatican II documents on ecumenism. But the location of the event was changed after an internet petition objecting to the event drew national attention. The new document may help bishops ...

I further argued that in light of the “Decree on Ecumenism,” one can conclude ... In Dominus Iesus the C.D.F. has followed Vatican II in recognizing that outside the Catholic Church there ...

Vatican II was strikingly different from the 20 other ... social and economic justice. A decree On Ecumenism, committing Catholicism to work for Christian unity, for the first time acknowledges ...