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What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
From CNA: Vatican City, Nov 23, 2009 / 01:22 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, explained last week that the entrance of Anglicans into the Catholic Church is the fruit of authentic ecumenism inspired by the Second Vatican Council. [I must admit, I didn’t think I would hear this [...] Post from: WDTPRS Card. Kasper:...
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E F pastor emeritus (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
While Mr Rowan Williams of Canterbury was making claims in Rome about the sameness of Beliefs of Anglicans and Catholics on Thursday many might have wondered if he was on the same planet as the rest of us. Not however, Cardinal Walter Kasper who, according to reports, was seen to be frequently nodding his head in agreement with most of the outrageous statements of Mr.Williams. That in...
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eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
by Sandro Magister – chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it ROME, November 18, 2009 – Cardinal Walter Kasper has admitted it: “There has been a bit of confusion.” He himself contributed to some of the confusion, involuntarily. When on October 20 Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, announced the imminent publication of an...
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VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Cardinal Kasper says provision for Anglicans is not anti-ecumenical By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The establishment of special structures for Anglicans who want to enter into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church absolutely is not a signal of the end of ecumenical dialogue with the Anglican Communion, said the Vatican's chief ecumenist. Cardinal Walter...
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eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(ENI). The Vatican official responsible for links with other churches has rejected suggestions of a “standstill” in the search for Christian unity. “There has already been a lot of movement,” Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, told Ecumenical News International in Wittenberg, the eastern German town where...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
By George Conger, CEN It is not the Vatican’s fault that ecumenical relations with the Anglican Communion have soured, Cardinal Walter Kasper has declared. The Anglican Communion’s civil wars over women and gay bishops are the primary obstacles to Catholic-Anglican ecumenical dialogue Cardinal Kasper said in an interview published in L’Osservatore Romano. Cardinal...
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Angels, Wonders, and Miracles (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... feast of St. Andrew, patron of the Orthodox Church. The Vatican delegation was headed by Cardinal Walter Kasper and Bishop Brian Farrell, president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Bartholomew said the presence of the delegation in Istanbul "confirms the desire to eliminate the impediments accumulated in the course of a millennium to attain...
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Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... sending delegations to Rome for the patronal feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, and noted that Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, was leading a Vatican delegation to this year's celebration in Istanbul. The continued drive toward Christian unity, the Pope insisted, "should not be hindered by those who remain bound to the remembrance...
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Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Constitution, he had very little time to react, and he had to make an emergency call to Cardinal Walter Kasper of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity at the eleventh hour to find out what was going on. Cardinal Kasper uttered the usual ecumenical assurances, but he was not himself a key player. I do not say he was completely out of the loop. The official explanation...
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Anglican Down Under (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
(H/T Fulcrum News) Walter Kasper clears up some confusion in the minds of journalists and of critics of Benedict's offer to Anglicans ... Jim Packer is as sagacious as ever , from the ending of Mark's Gospel through the brilliance of C.S. Lewis to unpicking the difficulties of Canadian Anglicanism ...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... tried to present the offer as a normal step, but the Vatican's top ecumenical official, Cardinal Walter Kasper, last week revealed Williams had called him in the middle of the night for an explanation when it was announced.There was no immediate comment from the Anglican side on William's brief private audience with the pontiff, which was billed as a courtesy call by church officials....
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VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... may be understood as 'pastoral' but is not necessarily very ecumenical. Even though Cardinal Walter Kasper has now given one newspaper interview, there has otherwise been a noticeable silence on the part of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity on this matter. This appears to be a unilateral action on the part of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which...
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The Lead (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... may be understood as 'pastoral' but is not necessarily very ecumenical. Even though Cardinal Walter Kasper has now given one newspaper interview, there has otherwise been a noticeable silence on the part of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity on this matter. This appears to be a unilateral action on the part of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which...
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Ekklesia (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Vatican official responsible for links with other churches, theologian Cardinal Walter Kasper, has rejected suggestions of a "standstill" in the search for Christian unity.
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LiturgicalCredo.com's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... papacy “It is possible for us today to together learn from Martin Luther,” said Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity as he planted the first of 500 trees on 1 November in a landscaped Luther Garden, forming part of the celebrations for 2017. Churches worldwide are being encouraged to adopt one of the trees planned for the Luther...
