A Catholic and an Anglican teach ecumenism course side by side

Its a classroom setting you wont likely find anywhere else. A Catholic priest and an Anglican priest teaching the same course side by side.

The ecumenical department at the Angelicum University in Rome is behind this unique curriculum geared at teaching students about ecumenism.

The course goes beyond denominational lines giving students two contemporary perspectives on issues that have historically divided Catholics and Anglicans.

Professor Roderick Strange
Rector, Beda College (Rome)
I hope the students when they see us discussing at times disagreeing or taking different emphases, taking different approaches to the same questions, that the students themselves recognize or learn something about the way which the dialogue for ecumenism and the relationships between different traditions between the churches can be handled.

Rev. Bill Franklin
Associate Director, American Academy (Rome)
Even in the class today I was giving the Anglican view of the Reformation and then after the break Rod said, Monsignor Strange, Ive got to give the Roman Catholic view. That made the class even better. Because the students could see that we both had a different understanding of a similar set of events and yet we were friends in having that.

But the most interesting part about the class is the rapport between the two professors—modeled after one of the most famous friendships in the Churchs history.

The one between Cardinal John Henry Newman and John Pusey; a Catholic and an Anglican, both leaders of the Oxford Movement who remained friends even after Newman left the Anglican Church to become a Roman Catholic.

Professor Roderick Strange
Rector, Beta College (Rome)
Weve become friends which is in itself a kind of reflection if you like in a minor key of what was taking place between Newman and Pusey.

Rev. Bill Franklin
Associate Director, American Academy (Rome)
Ultimately seeing how two church figures and two church figures in the 21 century can have a deep friendship even at a moment when our churches dont entirely agree on every subject. So its the theme of friendship that I want to share with people.

So, whats Father Bill and Father Rodericks most important lesson? Teaching the students to forge friendships the same way they both did in the spirit of John Henry Newman and John Pusey. All the while learning about ecumenism.

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[ASignOfContradiction]

@Nimo753 lol.

[LAPSEDCATHOLIC1]

For those of you who don't know what ecumenism is about:

The coming together, setting aside religious differences, and finding common ground among Christians, Muslims, Jews, and the like.  Exploring the cultures, and religious beliefs of others.

It is flourishing well in Catholicism.

I'm a Catholic, and I practice ecumenism.

[LAPSEDCATHOLIC1]

Watch your mouth, Nimo753.

As a catholic (despite the username) I think ecumenism is absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

We all should put aside petty religious differences that do not count, hold hands, and sing Kumbayah, my Lord.

Ecumeism, by the way, is a good thing. I cannot absolutely stand people like you, Nimo. You owe the pope an apology.

[Nimo753]

fuck off pope - fuck off Roman Catholics ....Anglican`s is the only true faith , come over to my church and be saved !

[ASignOfContradiction]

Read Mortalium Animos by Pius XI (1928) who teaches the infalliblibly about Protestant Christians: “These pan-Christians who turn their minds to uniting the churches seem, indeed, to pursue the noblest of ideas in promoting charity among all Christians: how does it happen that this charity tends to injure faith?... for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the RETURN to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it”.

[ASignOfContradiction]

“Nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises; for if they do so they will be giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of Christ. They hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute but relative, that is, it agrees with the varying necessities of time and place and with the varying tendencies of the mind but is capable of being accommodated to human life.”

[ministercreek]

both of these men are unsaved men. They reject the word of God.

[Nimo753]

Was this the best way dealing with our Anglican bros/sis , or was it best to establish a room in the Anglican Communion to suite them - Please do not join RCC , they`re the worst bullshit artists in this universe...Anyway Long live Anglicanism - an independant body followers of Christ , who the hell is st vincent of lorin....

[GottmitunsAlex]

Therefore, heresy is from the Greek word meaning "choice" . . . but we are not permitted to believe whatever we choose, nor to choose whatever someone else has believed. We have the Apostles of God as authorities who did not choose what they would believe but faithfully transmitted the teachings of Christ. So, even if an angel from heaven should preach otherwise, he shall be called anathema.

St. Isidore,

Etymologies, (7th Century)

[GottmitunsAlex]

Cardinal Newman and John Pusey never taught side by side about ecumenism.

Highway to hell. That is where this "ecumenism" is leading to.

And for those people out there saying: "There are a lot of good intentions with teaching ecumenism from 2 different religions!". Guess what?! So is the road to hell. It is paved with good intentions.

Catholics out there, remember what St. Vincent of Lerins wrote: "If you stick with tradition, you will not fall astray by any lying novelty". Tridentine mass