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Protestant denominations responded to the possibility of unification with varying success. Catholic representatives were present at the council, but merely as observers. [29] The Conversations at Malines (1923–27) were talks between some representatives of the Catholic Church and the Church of England which Pope Pius XI ceased. No real change ...
As with other Protestant traditions, the Anglican understanding of full communion differs from that of the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy, which consider that full communion between churches involves them becoming a single church, as in the case of the particular churches "in which and formed out of which the one and unique ...
[250] [251] [252] Some Protestant Eastern Churches are in communion with similar Western Protestant Churches. [250] [253] However, Protestant Eastern Christianity within itself, does not constitute a single communion. This is due to the diverse polities, practices, liturgies and orientations of the denominations which fall under this category.
Communion under both kinds for the whole congregation was a central issue for the Protestant reformers, since they believed that it had been specifically commanded by Jesus at the Last Supper. [5] John Calvin in his seminal 1536 work, Institutes of the Christian Religion , wrote; 'For Christ not only gave the cup, but appointed that the ...
This centuries-old argument over doctrine needs to change and we have a pope who wants that to happen.
Due to Counterreformation ("Catholic Reformation") related suppressions in Catholic lands during the 16th through 19th centuries, many Protestants lived as Crypto-Protestants. Meanwhile, in Protestant areas, Catholics sometimes lived as crypto-papists , although in continental Europe emigration was more feasible so this was less common.
The various Protestant sects cannot constitute one Church because they have no intercommunion... each Protestant Church, whether Methodist or Baptist or whatever, is in perfect communion with itself everywhere as the Roman Catholic; and in this respect, consequently, the Roman Catholic has no advantage or superiority, except in the point of ...
The Common Catechism: A Book of Christian Faith is an ecumenical Christian catechism that is the result of Catholic-Protestant dialogue and work. [1] It was first published in 1973 and is the first joint catechism published by theologians of the Catholic Church, and the Lutheran Church and the Reformed Church, among other Protestant traditions, since the Reformation: [2] [3]