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USCC News Release: Catholics, Southern Baptists Plan Five-Year Consultation (1978)
USCC News Release: Catholics, Southern Baptists Plan Five-Year Consultation by William Ryan, April 25, 1978
Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic scholars will soon begin a series of dialogues, to be conducted initially over a five-year period, on "The Nature and Function of the Church." Bishop James D. Niedergeses of Nashville is Roman Catholic co-chairman of the consultation, to be co-sponsored by the Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs (BCEIA) and the Department of Interfaith Witness of the Baptist Home Mission Board.