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USCC News Release: Anglican-Roman Catholic Bishops Dialogue at Missouri Retreat House (1970)

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  • 2013
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  • English

USCC News Release: Anglican-Roman Catholic Bishops Dialogue at Missouri Retreat House by Russell Shaw, May 28, 1970

LIBERTY, MO.- -  Anglican and Roman Catholic Bishops joined together for three days of prayer at Immacolata Retreat House (here) May 25-27. The retreat was under the co-sponsorship of the Committee for Ecumenism of the Episcopal Church and the Catholic Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

Dr. Massey Shepherd of the Theological Union, Berkeley, California, and Father Herbert Ryan, S.J., of Woodstock College, New York, were the two retreat masters.

Earlier this month, the Joint Commission on Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations (ARC) -- an official theological study group which has held discussions for the past five years -- released a statement declaring it saw no theological reason why the two churches could not eventually achieve "full communion and organic union."

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