USCCB Statement on Common Agreement on Baptism (2012)

Statement by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory to the Press, regarding the Common Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Baptism, November 16, 2010 

"In this afternoon’s session of the USCCB’s plenary meeting, the bishops approved Action Item #5, the Common Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Baptism offered by Round 7 of the Catholic-Reformed Dialogue in the United States.

This vote of our bishops’ conference is milestone on the ecumenical journey. Together with our Reformed brothers and sisters from the Christian Reformed Church in North America, the Presbyterian ChurchUSA, the Reformed Church in America and the United Church of Christ, we Catholic bishops can once again affirm baptism as the basis of the real, even if incomplete, unity we share in Christ."

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