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Permanent Archive

• Anglican Communion Office
  • Statement: Signing of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (October 1999) HTML
• Anglican Communion - Roman Catholic Church dialogue
  • Mississauga Bishops' dialogue (May, 2000)
    • Communion in Mission (May 19, 2000) HTML
    • Press release: Communion in Mission (May 19, 2000) HTML
    • Sermon: Archbishop Carey HTML
  • ARCIC II "Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ" (Seattle, February 2, 2004) HTML
  • ARCIC II « Marie : grâce et espérance dans le Christ » (Seattle, 2 février 2004) HTML
• Balasuriya, Fr. Tissa
  • Fr. Tissa Balasuriya's response to Dominus Iesus HTML
• Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI)
  • Future Directions for Ecumenism (February 2005) HTML
    Some Reflections on Future Directions for Ecumenism: An address to the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland Assembly, 23rd February 2005, by The Rt Revd Michael Jackson, bishop of Clogher, Church of Ireland.
• de Margerie, Fr. Bernard
  • Analytical Index to the Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms of Ecumenism HTML
• Disciples of Christ - Roman Catholic Church dialogue
  • Press release: Disciples / Roman Catholic dialogue explores evangelization HTML
• Evangelicals and Catholics Together
  • The Christian Mission in the Third Millenium HTML
• Faith Today (Evangelical Fellowship of Canada)
  • Keeping company with one another: Catholics and Evangelical Protestants are connecting despite doctrinal differences HTML
• Jesson, Nicholas
  • Doctrine divides, service unites: Towards a 'vital and coherent theology' (April 2003) PDF
    A consideration of the perennial ecumenical division between "Faith & Order" and "Life & Work." Explores the WCC's "Ecclesiology and Ethics" study.
  • Lex orandi, lex credendi: towards a liturgical theology (November 2001) PDF
    A consideration of the ancient adage 'lex orandi lex credendi" as an entry point to an ecumenically sensitive liturgical theology.
  • Orthodox contributions to ecumenical ecclesiology (October 2001) PDF
    A Roman Catholic evaluation of the continuing contributions of Eastern Orthodox theologians to the ecumenical reflection on ecclesiology. Particular attention is paid to the concept of "church as communion / koinonia."
  • Paradise regained: Indulgences in light of the Joint Declaration (May 2002) PDF
    In November of 1998 the Vatican issued revised norms on indulgences to accompany the jubilee indulgence proclaimed for the Holy Year of 2000. At the same time the Lutheran World Federation was considering the adoption of a joint consensus statement on the doctrine of justification together with the Vatican. The two developments appeared contradictory and ecumenically problematic. This paper explores the patristic and medieval development of the sacrament of penance and the doctrine of indulgences, considers some contemporary re-articulations of the doctrine of indulgences, and assesses them in the light of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.
  • Reading Wesley in light of the Joint Declaration on Justification (February 2002) PDF
    A Catholic reading of John Wesley's doctrine of justification and sanctification in light of the recent Lutheran-Roman Catholic consensus on justification by faith.
  • Where is the Church of Christ?: The developing teaching of Vatican II (January 2000) PDF
    A paper on the ongoing development of Roman Catholic recognition of ecclesial reality in other Christian churches. This paper was prepared prior to the publication of Dominus Iesus, the CDF's August, 2000 instruction on the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Church.
  • Where two or three are gathered: Miroslav Volf's Free Church ecclesiology (March 2003) PDF
    A consideration of Volf's book After our likeness, and the trinitarian free church ecclesiology developed therein.
• John Paul II, Pope
  • Encyclical: Fides et Ratio HTML
• Lutheran World Federation
  • The implications of justification in the world's contexts HTML
• Lutheran World Federation & Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
  • Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by Faith (October 1999) HTML
• Prairie Centre for Ecumenism
  • How to help your mixed marriage succeed! HTML
• Presbyterian Church in Canada
  • Definition of ecumenism, excerpt from the Report of the Ecumenical Relations Committee to the 123rd General Assembly, 1997.
• United Church of Canada - Roman Catholic Church Dialogue
  • In whose name? PDF
• Vatican (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)
  • Note on the expression "sister churches" HTML
• Western Diocesan and Eparchial Coordinators of Ecumenism (WDECE)
  • A common table: "The already, but not yet" (October 1998) HTML
  • The ecumenical encounter (October 1998) HTML
• World Council of Churches
  • Consultation on the churches and the crisis in the Balkans HTML