The meanings of apostolic.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: Neuhaus, Richard | Copyright information

The future of ecumenism understood as the quest for visible unity among Christians and their ecclesial communities depends above all on the commitment and directions of the Catholic Church. Which means it depends in significant part on the leadership of Walter Cardinal Kasper, who in 2001 succeeded Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy as president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Kasper was for years a distinguished professor of theology at the University of Tubinge...

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