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USCC News Release: Southern Baptist/Roman Catholic Conversations Likely to Continue (1988)
USCC News Release: Southern Baptist/Roman Catholic Conversations Likely to Continue by Carl Eifert, April 6, 1988
Participants in the recently concluded third round of the 10-year-old Southern Baptist/Roman Catholic Interchurch conversations "strongly affirmed the need for the conversations to continue," a Catholic spokesman said.
Father Thaddeus Horgan of the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs (BCEIA) said of the talks in New Orleans, "The participants said these conversations witness against sectarianism in America today and witness t6 Christianity's ability to be an agent of reconciliation, and therefore have to continue." He said that was true despite "tensions within both church communities" that led to speculation that "these conversations are doomed."