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USCC News Release: Bishops' Spokesman Hails Report of Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission (1982)
USCC News Release: Bishops' Spokesman Hails Report of Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission by William Ryan, March 29, 1982
WASHINGTON--The Catholic bishop who chairs the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States hailed publication of the Final Report of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, noting the document may serve as a springboard to a new stage in the quest for "organic unity" between the two bodies.
"If the Final Report is widely accepted, the separation of the Churches of the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church would be more easily overcome because there would be no doctrinal reason why these Churches would not be in full canonical communion with one another," said Bishop Raymond W. Lessard of Savannah.