MWC issues report on dialogue with Catholics, sends to churches
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Five-plus years after they first met for a formal dialogue, representatives from Mennonite World Conference and the Catholic Church’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity have issued a report of their conversations. Its title, “Called Together to Be Peacemakers,” hints at both the intention and tone of the meetings. MWC will now forward copies of the report to all of its member churches for “study and reaction.” The English document has been translated into French; a Spanish translation is underway.
“We are now entering a broadening stage in the process,” says MWC executive secretary Larry Miller, one of the participants in the conversations. “This report is not a kind of encyclical handed down from the MWC office. Instead it is intended to be reviewed and explored by Mennonites and Brethren in Christ around the world from the point of view of their contexts and convictions.
“This approach is somewhat of an innovation, as far as I know, “ says Miller. “Instead of MWC simply issuing a report or taking it first to its governing body to be formally accepted, we are taking a two- to three-year period during which member churches can respond. The MWC General Council will review both the report and the responses from member churches when it meets next, in 2006.”
The report is available in paper or electronic form from MWC.—Phyllis Pellman Good for MWC News Service
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