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By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
National Catholic Reporter
Occasionally, significant turning points in history are recognized as such at the time, but more often they pass more or less unnoticed until later, when, with the benefit of hindsight, their importance reveals itself.
Such may well have been the case this week, with the release of the long-awaited Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ, the latest document from the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC).
Though it’s dangerous with a complex document of almost 16,000 words to reduce its content to a couple of sentences, in essence, Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ declares that, properly understood, Anglicans can accept the Marian content of the two dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption, infallibly defined by popes in 1854 and 1950, respectively.
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National Catholic Reporter
Occasionally, significant turning points in history are recognized as such at the time, but more often they pass more or less unnoticed until later, when, with the benefit of hindsight, their importance reveals itself.
Such may well have been the case this week, with the release of the long-awaited Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ, the latest document from the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC).
Though it’s dangerous with a complex document of almost 16,000 words to reduce its content to a couple of sentences, in essence, Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ declares that, properly understood, Anglicans can accept the Marian content of the two dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption, infallibly defined by popes in 1854 and 1950, respectively.
Full article