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Unity Work in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

John M. Todd
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Have been asked by the Editor of The Life Of The Spirit to write on achievement and prospects in ecumenical work by Catholics in England, and to relate my article specially to what is being done and what could be done in this respect in our universities. To write upon what has already been achieved in this direction would entail the making of a catalogue of individual lectures and talks, of discussion meetings mostly on a small scale, and perhaps of one or two series of theological conversations held over a period of years between Catholic and Anglican scholars. A few books also, in English, on things ecumenical could be added to this catalogue. There is however no movement in England which puts into practice the principles for which the Roman organization Unitas, set up by the Holy See after the war, stands.

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Research Article
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 12 , Issue 139-140 , February 1958 , pp. 344 - 353
Copyright
Copyright © 1958 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 A list of them will be found in the ‘Comment’ on another page of this issue.

2 Its journal in three languages with this title is published quarterly. The English edition is obtainable from Duckett. 140 Strand, W.C.2.

3 Its journal under that name contains interesting inter-confessional articles as between Catholics and Lutherans, published by Kyrios-Verlag, Meitingen-bei-Augsburg.

4 Publishing a quarterly of that name in French and a monthly bulletin of things ecumenical. Istina, 25 Boulevard D'Auteuil, Boulogne-sur-Seine (Seine).

5 The author was one of the English delegates to the World Congress of the Lay Apo,tolate in Rome 1957. He was there in charge of a considerable group discussing the training of the laity in the parish. He was surprised to find that in many other countries there are nowregular parish meetings, in some places called parish councils. In the Philippines the priest is bound by his Bishop to meet the laity once a month to discuss the affairs of the parish.

6 The above reference to Pastor Goethe and his fellow-priest is not just my guess-work. An eminent authority in Rome, the reliability of whose word could not be doubted, assured me that what I have said about the purpose of their ordination is true.