Ecumenism thrives in a Kansas town: including women in Holy Thursday ritual left to bishops; Ratzinger critiques centralization.(World)(Column)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: April 23, 2004| Author: Allen, John L., Jr. | Copyright information

If you believe what you read including, I confess, from time to time in this column--you might conclude that the ecumenical movement is in crisis. Anglican-Catholic dialogue recently took a blow with the ordination of a gay Episcopal bishop, for example, while rumors of a Greek Catholic patriarchate in Ukraine have triggered another eruption in Orthodox-Catholic relations. Some fear that the ecumenical gains of the last 50 years are in jeopardy

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