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Joint commission begins new round
of Methodist-Catholic talks

by United Methodist News Service

	A new series of meetings have begun for the 16-member Joint Commission for
Dialogue between the World Methodist Council and the Roman Catholic Church.
	Building on 30 years of conversations since the end of the Second Vatican
Council, meetings started Nov. 9-15 in Venice, Italy. Patriarch of Venice,
Cardinal Marco Cé, visited the group.
	According to the Rev. Joe Hale, World Methodist Council general secretary,
the commission directed its attention to the message of the Gospel and how it
could be preached "with courage and power to a world in need."
	While Methodists and Catholics agree on the basics of faith, he explained,
they differ on some aspects of the message and about who is authorized to
teach it. Since 1986, dialogue participants have explored possibilities for
full communion between Methodists and Catholics, he added.
	The current commission will meet three more times and report its results in
2001. Its members -- appointed by the council and the Pontifical Council for
Promoting Christian Unity -- include theologians, ecumenists and bishops.
	Methodists on the commission are the Rev. Geoffrey Wainwright, co-chairman,
of Britain but currently living in the United States; Hale, co-secretary;
Bishop Daniel Arichea, Jr., the Philippines; Bishop Mvume Dandala, South
Africa; the Rev. Scott Jones, United States; Gillian Kingston, Ireland; Bishop
Richard Looney, United States; and the Rev. John Newton, England.
	Roman Catholic members are the Rev. Michael Putney, co-chairman, Australia;
the Rev. Timothy Galligan, co-secretary, Vatican City State; the Rev.
Alexander Brunett, United States; the Rev. Canon Michael Evans, England; the
Rev. Francis Frost, France; Sister Mary Charles Murray, England; the Rev.
George Tavard, United States; and the Rev. Peter Turkson, Ghana.
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