Dialogue Press Release
USCC News Release: Lutheran-Catholic Statement on Papacy Will Be Explored in Guideline Shows (1974)
USCC News Release: Lutheran-Catholic Statement on Papacy Will Be Explored in Guideline Shows by William Ryan, April 10, 1974
NEW YORK--The statement of ''common ground" on the difficult issue of Papal primacy, issued recently by a group of Lutheran and Roman Catholic theologians, will be explored in a two-part program in the NBC Guideline radio series.
Father John F. Hotchkin, director of the secretariat of the Catholic Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, will be interviewed on the programs, which will be broadcast on successive Sundays, on April 21 and 28.
In discussions beginning in 1965, members of the national Lutheran-Catholic dialogue had found "broad areas of agreement" on such matters as the Nicene Creed, Baptism, the Eucharist, and the Ministry of word and sacrament.
In a 5,000-word Common Statement issued on March 4 of this year, the scholars, while acknowledging "remaining disagreements" and "points yet to be examined," were able to say they had also found "common ground" on the issue of papal primacy.