: 4 Historical perspectives Before the Second Vatican Council The Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism states that the Bishops of the Catholic Church, "individually for their ownĭioceses, and collegially for the whole Church, are, under the authority of the Holy See, responsible for ecumenical policy and practice". It can be said that the "ecumenicity" of the Church is another way of expressing her "radical catholicity and/or universality". One of the principal ecclesiological tasks is to discern the relationship between the Churches." Underlying the Catholic Church's pursuit of ecumenism is its recognition that elements of sanctification and truth are found in other churches, that, in some sense, these are Christians and particular churches or ecclesial communities, and that common baptism itself impels those toward greater unity, since Baptism is a gift which "belongs" to the Catholic Church as one of the Sacraments which Christ endowed it with.
#Unity catholic full
Sober minds realize that the road to full unity will be long and arduous. "The Catholic Church is committed to working for the reunion of all Christians, but the exuberant spirit following Vatican II has been tempered. : 1 This was attested to even from the moment the Council was announced, by Pope John XXIII, during the vespers closing the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity on 25 January 1959, at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. "The search for Christian Unity was one of the principal concerns of the Second Vatican Council".
The Catholic Church's commitment to ecumenism was based on the conviction that a divided Christianity "openly contradicts the will of Christ, scandalizes the world, and damages the holy cause of preaching the Gospel to every creature." This means that according to Catholic teaching, Christian unity is already a reality, present in the Catholic Church. As the original Church founded by Jesus Christ (as the Catholic Church teaches of itself) the Catholic Church sees itself as "the one true church". The Union of Christendom is a traditional Catholic view of ecumenism the view is that every non-Catholic Christian ecclesial community is destined to return to the unity of the Catholic Church, from which it has broken.
Acts 17.6 Mt 24.14 Heb 2.5), is the promotion of cooperation and unity among Christians. 6 Practical ecumenism and church attendanceĮcumenism, from the Greek word “ oikoumene”, meaning “the whole inhabited world” (cf.5.9 Reformed Churches (Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist).5.2.2 Post–Second Vatican Council developments.5 Relations with churches and communions of the West.3 Relations with the World Council of Churches.
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