ECUMENISM

Pope John Paul II on Ecumenism

• All Must Strive for Goal of Full Unity - General Audience July 12, 1995
• "Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock"
• Be Reconciled to God and to One Another - January 19, 1997
• Ecumenism Is Now An Urgent Task for the Catholic Church - to the members of the Episcopal Conference of Romania - 7 December 1996
• Ecumenism of Martyrs and Saints - May 23, 1995. Address to the official delegation from Bulgaria visiting Rome to celebrate the feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius.
• God's Spirit Impels Us to Restore Full Unity
• Message to the Cuban Council of Churches - Pope John Paul II, Havana, January 1998
• May We Rediscover Our Full Communion - The Holy Father's message to Karekin I, Patriarch of All Armenians
• Pope John Paul's agenda for Christian unity - By J. Michael Miller
• We extend our arms in brotherhood - to the Patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches at an audience on 29 September 1998
• That All May Be One - Pope John Paul II: Ut Unum Sint, 1995
• Vatican II Called Catholics to Active Role in Ecumenism - Pope John Paul II - Sunday Angelus, January 21, 1996
• Vatican II Praised Eastern Traditions - General Audience August 9, 1995
• We preach a message of reconciliation - General Audience
  

  "I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you , that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me." John 17:20-21
  
  
  Catholic Documents on Ecumenism

• Catholic-Mennonite Dialogue - Mons. John A. Radano - Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
• Decree on the Churches of the Eastern Rite
• Decree on Ecumenism - Vatican II
• Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism - Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity - 1993
• Dominus Iesus - on the Unicity and Salvific Unniversality of Jesus Christ and the Church
• On admitting Other Christians to Eucharistic Communion in the Catholic
• On Religious Unity - Pope Pius XI: Mortalium Animos - 1928
• On the Ecumenical Movement - An Instruction of the Holy Office - 1949
• Our Chance to Promote Unity - Joint Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops of Zimbabwe to their Faithful on the occasion of the 8th World Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Harare in December 1998
  Church - Secretariat for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians - 1972
• Responses of the Catholic Church to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of
  Justification - Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity - 1998
• That They May All Be One - The Imperative and Prospects of Christian Unity
  Edward Idris Cassidy
• Statement on Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - the bishops of Florida.- 1984

Common Declarations

• Ecumenism in Canada
• Common Christological Declaration Between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East
• Common Declaration signed by Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Bartholomew I in 1995
• Common Declaration signed by Pope John Paul II and Armenian Catholicicos Karekin I in 1996
• Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification - 1997
• The Discourse of His Holiness, Mar Dinkha IV, Catholicos-Patriarch of of the East, to John Paul II, Bishop of Rome and Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
• The Lutheran August 1998 Justification Lutherans, Catholics agree
  

Ecumenical Organisations

• Ecunet - "online world's oldest interactive Christian community!"
• Order of Ecumenical Franciscans
• Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
• Taizé Community - Non frames site + With frames
• Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies
• World Council of Churches