ACNS 4863 - Anglican-Catholic dialogue opens at Bose

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Posted On : May 19, 2011 10:00 AM | Posted By : Admin ACO

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By Philippa Hitchen of

<http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/articolo.asp?c=487810>Vatican Radio

The third phase of ARCIC, or Anglican-Roman

Catholic International Commission, started on
Tuesday at the monastery of Bose in northern Italy.
Nestled in the foothills of the Alps, the
monastery, founded on the closing day of the
Second Vatican Council in December 1965, is a
haven of peaceful reflection and prayer, but also
a place of important ecumenical encounters.
Within its secluded walls, the two teams of
Catholic and Anglican experts are gathered from
May 17th to 27th focusing on the theme ?Church as
Communion ? local and universal.? The discussions
will look back at achievements of the previous
ARCIC,dialogues and explore pressing ethical
issues that are challenging the teaching of both Churches.
To find out more, Philippa Hitchen spoke to the
two co-secretaries of the meeting - Msgr. Mark
Langham of the Pontifical Council for Christian
Unity and Alyson Barnett-Cowan, head of the
Unity, Faith and Order office of the Anglican Communion.

Listen here:

<http://212.77.9.15/audio/ra/00261923.RM>Real  or
<http://212.77.9.15/audiomp3/00261923.MP3>MP3 or
visit the Vatican Radio site
<http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/articolo.asp?c=487810>here

"It's a theme that arose out of the discussions
of the Holy Father and Archbishop Rowan Williams
when they met in Rome and very much relates to
issues that are affecting the Anglican Communion at the moment...

We've always said that the path of traditional
ecumenical dialogue is different from that of
individual or group conversion - the Second
Vatican Council made that clear in its document
on ecumenism - so we don't see our work lying
within that framework of the Ordinariate."

"I think expectations are quite high, because
there's been a lot of talk over the past year
about Anglican-Catholic relations in the meda and
this is a chance for the official theological
dialogue to get to work on the important
questions that are between us at the moment.

We're not afraid of sharing with Roman Catholics
the fact that there are lively and divisive questions among us..."