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WASHINGTON—Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), will join other church leaders in downtown Chicago, October 1, to commemorate the signing of a joint agreement on the Doctrine of Justification, a matter that for centuries divided Christians.
Leaders from the Catholic, Lutheran, and Methodist churches will gather at Old Saint Patrick’s Church for a service of Evening Prayer that will include talks paying tribute to the Joint Declaration, signed on October 31, 1999, by the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation.
“This is an historic moment on the journey toward Christian unity,” said Father James Massa, USCCB Executive Director for the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. “The Joint Declaration expressed a common understanding of how human beings are made right with God through the life-giving death of Jesus Christ,” Father Massa said.
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Leaders from the Catholic, Lutheran, and Methodist churches will gather at Old Saint Patrick’s Church for a service of Evening Prayer that will include talks paying tribute to the Joint Declaration, signed on October 31, 1999, by the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation.
“This is an historic moment on the journey toward Christian unity,” said Father James Massa, USCCB Executive Director for the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. “The Joint Declaration expressed a common understanding of how human beings are made right with God through the life-giving death of Jesus Christ,” Father Massa said.
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