In Search of Growth By Kirk Petersen If you ask any American what comes to mind when you say Latino religion, the response will almost certainly be Catholic and not Episcopalian. But the link between Latins and Romans is not as strong as it once was, and the shift is accelerating. In 2006, Pew Research found that 70 percent of American Latinos were Roman Catholic. Just … [Read more...] about Hispanic Growth = Episcopal Growth?
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Grassroots Church Unity
It used to be an anguished cry of Protestants in Ireland that the Roman Catholic Church’s policy on mixed marriages was “bleeding other churches dry.” The policy required that couples should raise their children as Catholics, and that weddings conducted in Protestant churches should soon be followed by a nuptial Mass celebrated by the local priest. The policy has produced … [Read more...] about Grassroots Church Unity
One Baptism
By John Martin Roman Catholic and Coptic churches have agreed to recognize each other’s baptisms. The decision was disclosed in a common declaration signed on April 28 by Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Francis was on a solidarity visit to Egypt in the wake of the Palm Sunday bombings that left 47 Coptic Christians dead and many … [Read more...] about One Baptism
Ecumenism’s Strange Future
By Robert W. Jenson Let me set things up with an anecdote — a disproportionately long one, I confess. I will make a couple of observations directly about it, and then carry on past the anecdote but along its trajectory. Since I had taught at Oxford it was assumed that I was a Lutheran who knew something about Anglicanism, so I was appointed to the opening round of … [Read more...] about Ecumenism’s Strange Future