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IV. Reasons for Hope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2020

Russel Murray
Russel Murray*
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St. Bonaventure University
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A tempting response to this question is: how has it not changed during those years? The previous quarter century was a profoundly significant period for the ecumenical movement. The movement achieved remarkable breakthroughs on historically church-dividing issues, confronted the emergence of new church-dividing issues, fostered an exchange of gifts to help churches overcome their divisions (old and new), and deepened the churches’ commitment to ecumenism, making the ecumenical movement a prophetic sign for our time. I will consider each of these points in turn. First, a word on the significance of Ut Unum Sint (UUS) itself.

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Horizons , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , December 2020 , pp. 332 - 337
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Copyright © College Theology Society, 2020

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49 See John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint (May 25, 1995), http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25051995_ut-unum-sint.html, §15, citing the Second Vatican Council, Unitatis Redintegratio, §7.

50 The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, The Gift of Authority, September 3, 1998, http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_12051999_gift-of-autority_en.html.

51 See “The Third Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission,” Walking Together on the Way: Learning to be the Church—Local, Regional, Universal, 2017, https://iarccum.org/doc/?d=721.

52 See 1 Corinthians 12:12–27.

53 See Ut Unum Sint, §28, citing the Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium, §13.

54 International Theological Commission, Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church, March 2, 2018, http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_cti_20180302_sinodalita_en.html, §6.

55 See the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, The Gift of Authority, §34 and §60.

56 Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, Synodality and Primacy during the First Millennium: Towards a Common Understanding in Service to the Unity of the Church, September 21, 2016, http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/ch_orthodox_docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20160921_sinodality-primacy_en.html.

57 See Ut Unum Sint, §13.

58 This is my recollection of the sermon.