Anglican-Catholic talks make progress in South Africa

(Vatican Radio) Catholic and Anglican ecumenical experts have concluded a 10 day meeting in Durban, South Africa, making "a great deal of progress" towards an agreed statement on authority in the Church and the ethical decision-making process. The 18 members of the group, known as ARCIC III, also agreed to hold next year’s meeting at a Catholic seminary close to Rome.

For the fourth session of their talks, which concluded on May 20th, the group focused on the Church as Communion at local, regional and universal levels, reflecting on the impact of culture and the role of lay people in decision making. The group, hosted by the Anglican bishop of Natal, also visited local ecumenical initiatives, including an AIDS centre and a project working for justice and development amongst the poorest and most vulnerable.

To find out more about this latest meeting of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, Philippa Hitchen spoke to the two co-chairs, Archbishop David Moxon, director of Rome’s Anglican Centre and the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham Bernard Longley….

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"We feel we've made a great deal of progress...we're about half way through our work and we feel we've now got a clear view of the outcomes....."