Hi Jon, its been awhile sense we last talked.
I spent the moring reading this "booK relwased on the USCCB site [United Staes Conference of Catholic Bishops]. Not being a theologian I found it to be confusing:
Is it saying that Lutherans Do have Seven Sacraments validly and licit y?
And #2 is it saying the the RCC has agreed to Sola Scriptura theolgy?
"The latter agreement, echoing also later (in No. 6), affirms as well the central role in both of our churches of practices with perceptible, embodied components, such as baptism, the Lord’s Supper or Eucharist, exercising the keys for the forgiveness of sins, and designating and ordaining members for the pastoral office of preaching, sacramental celebration, and pastoral care. A further perceptible element at the very center of the lives of believers and communities in both our churches are the Scriptures that we take to be inspired and canonical (No. 5). 15 The Church: Towards a Common Vision states in § 23 that the church
Thanks Jon, Continued Blessings,
PJM [Patrick]