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Joint call by archbishops to pray for unity ADELAIDE: The Catholic and Anglican archbishops hare issued a statement calling on their Church members to work and pray for unity. Catholic Archbishop Glee and Anglican Archbishop Rayner issued the statement last week following meetings for the past twelve months of ecumenical commissions of both churches. The Adelaide discussions have followed the lines of son
the Anglican-Ronitan CathOlic International Commission that has issued agreed statements on the Eucharist, Ministry, and Authority In the Church. The joint Adelaide statement says:
We recognise that there are still serious obstacles in
the way of Christian unity and that unity may still be a long way off. If it is not yet possible for us to receive holy Communion in each others churches. BUt we want to entour-
growing together in
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unity. We are therefore encouraging our respective ecumenical committees to plan meetings of our priests and people to study together the beliefs we share.
From the right, Mrs ANH LE and her husband HIEP VAN LE, hold their daughter MYDUNG while Bishop HEALY anoints her and interpreter LE QUAN VINH holds the ewer of Holy Water for the baptism in the Star of the Sea Church, Cottesloe. Mydung was born when her father was in prison in Vietnam. (Story, Page 3).
The common inheritance includes:
agreed statements Our common faith in how much our two God our Father. in our churches have in common in Lord Jesus Christ and in our understanding of the Euthe holy Spirit. charist and the ministry. Our common baptism They also show wide into Christ. agreement on authority in On sharing of the the Church, though they alHoly Scriptures. so point to important difOur sharing of the ferences so far unresolved. Apostles' Creed, the Nicene The ARCIC documents Creed and the teachings of are still being assessed in the Fathers and many counboth Churches. cils of the Church. We wish to encourage continued study of them, IN PARTICULAR . . . In particular we call on not only by theologians but by the faithful members of the members of our churchour churches in our par- es: (CONTINUED PAGE 2) ishes and congregations.
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WARSAW: In scenario unimaginable 12 months ago, a Pope broke through the Iron Curtain and preached home truths to jittery communists.
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And then, on the spur of the moment, he shouted: "I trust that they hear me, We are living in the age of declared freedom of he spoke not only for Poles. in`or ra on. I would be very "The Pope comes to speak sorry if I knew that they on behalf of often forgot- did not hear me." he said, adding that he was sure his message was being
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land's communist Government a demonstration it did not welcome of the powerful influence of the Catholic Church on Poland's young people.
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