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Posted on 04/06/2008 4:58:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pope Benedict XVI will lead an ecumenical prayer service April 18, at St. Joseph's Church in the Yorkville area of Manhattan.
Participants at the service will include 250 national and local Protestant and Orthodox Church leaders.
St. Joseph's Church was built in the 19th century by the immigrant German community that settled in the area and today serves a diverse population. A Sunday Mass is still celebrated in German.
The pope will address the group after a reading from Paul's letter to the Ephesians (4:1-6) and before the congregation prays the Lord's Prayer.
At the end of the ceremony, the pope will greet ten national and five local ecumenical leaders.
The national leaders include:
Archbishop Demetrios of America, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America and Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In June 2003, the Archbishop led the delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Vatican for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. He serves as Chairman of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas.
Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America. Archbishop Barsamian is a member of the international dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and is Chairman of the Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches in the United States.
Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, legate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) in Washington and ecumenical officer. He became President of the National Council of Churches USA January 1, 2008.
Rev. Dr. Donald McCoid, representing Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is Director of the Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations Office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Bishop Jeremiah J. Park, Bishop of the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Rev. Dr. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America since 1994, and one of the five Presidents of Christian Churches Together in the USA, representing the historic Protestant family.
Rev. Dr. Clifton Kirkpatrick, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA) since 1996.
Rev. Dr. William J. Shaw, President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., since 1999. Dr. Shaw serves as one of the five Presidents of Christian Churches Together in the USA, representing the Racial/Ethnic family of churches.
Bishop James Leggett, General Superintendent of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, a position he had held since 1997. Bishop Leggett is the Evangelical/Pentecostal President of Christian Churches Together in the USA.
Dr. Leith Anderson, President of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) and senior pastor of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota since 1977.
Leaders from the New York area who will personally greet the pope include:
Bishop David H. Benke, president of the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Rev. Benke was elected president of the Atlantic District in 1991, and has been re-elected five times, most recently in 2006. He is also the primary ecumenical leader for the Nehemiah Project which provides housing for the poor in New York City.
Rev. Dr. A. R. Bernard Sr., President of the Council of Churches of the City of New York and founder and Senior Pastor of The Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York. He is also host of two weekly television programs, Faith in Practice with A. R. Bernard and The A. R. Bernard Show.
Elder Bernice A. King, the second daughter and youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. With her brother Martin Luther King III, she has been active in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference once led by their father. She is currently an elder at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia.
Rev. Jimmy Seong G. Lim, Executive Director of the Council of Churches of the City of New York. Rev. Lim has served the Council of Churches of the City of New York since 1999. Rev. Lim is an ordained minister in The Reformed Church in America.
The Right Rev. Mark S. Sisk, the 15th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Bishop Sisk was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of New York in 1998. Prior to his election as coadjutor, Bishop Sisk served as President and Dean of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been in ecumenical dialogue with a broad spectrum of Christian churches and communities for decades and has embarked with them on many ventures. One of the most recent is establishment of the Christian Churches Together in the USA. Members include Catholics, Orthodox, mainline Protestants, Evangelicals and Pentecostals. For the first time in U.S. history there is a structure to enable the great majority of Christians in the United States to speak together with a common voice on the issues that face both church and society.
Rev.Al and Rev.Jesse are not coming? /sarc
Lookie who is Coming to America!
It would be awesome if he could make more than one stop.
For those who cannot travel to the Vatican this is could be a great chance possibly to see his Holiness.
The Pope with the hip shoes. : )
I love that.
Oh LOL I forgot CATHOLIC PING!
Did you classify this in Breaking News?
I may be partial but I think it is very appropriate to be in that classification.
Oh, I missed this part: mainline Protestants
It’s an editorial, not a news report. Editorial don’t belong in Breaking News, but if the Admin moderator want to put it in Breaking News, it’s fine with me
Maybe on an epsiode of Seinfeld but not in real life.
If they do and with big time coverage look for Hillary and Obama to simultaneously release health/tax ect documents they want swept under the carpet. /sarc
Is Gamecock pinging anti Catholics?
BTW I though Hagee spoke up recently to say he is not anti Catholic and his past remarks of calling our faith the “great whore” were misunderstood and taken out of context?
When channel surfing relentlessly I stop on Hagee but when it came out that he was anti Catholic Faith I stopped then he came out to say he wasn’t so I began again.
They should have someone from Taize present as well.
Yeah, well...
^BISHOP^ Benke will be there (again!). What a publicity slut.
Oh, it's A LOT WORSE than that.
If he's hanging out with Kirkpatrick now, it's another good sign that the NAE is going has gone down the tubes.
I'd say Keller would be the most likely to show up for something like this event.
Safe to say that gluttony is not at the top of his sin filled list anymore.
Thanks for sharing that link.
And all those posters who feel deceived and without a Church.
A good Roman Catholic Adult CCD class would be an answer IMO for all these broken hearted ex Hagee/TBN club members.
Paging Scott Hahn.
That’s good. The Pope is doing a good thing. However I expect the usual creeps will be out in force protesting. The usual crowd.
Of course, that's his modus operandi.
Thanks for the ping.
You’re welcome.
Just like Catholics have the M.O. of talking about people and not pinging them.
“Bishop David H. Benke, president of the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Rev. Benke was elected president of the Atlantic District in 1991, and has been re-elected five times, most recently in 2006. He is also the primary ecumenical leader for the Nehemiah Project which provides housing for the poor in New York City.”
Ecumenical Prayer Service PING-a-ROO!
Prayers for his Holiness, Pope Benedict XV1.
I don’t agree with your statement at all.
Evidently you are not acquainted with St. Peter in the Bible, to whom Christ gave the Keys of the Kingdom.
St. Peter was the first Pope, in other words.
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***Where’s R.C. Sproul? Mike Horton? Todd Wilkens? Al Mohler?***
Let’s see... RC is in Florida, Mike Horton is in California, can’t really speak for the others :>)
Say, is this like one of those “Where’s Waldo” things?
OMG!! They say the TRUE Church is the FALSE Church???? YIKES!! Sad.
You said: Is Gamecock pinging anti Catholics?
Does a pig wallow in the mud?
Damn...I thought Algore was the anti-Christ. Didn’t realize he was LCMS.
tehehe
Oh, that’s right. Rome is the true church. < sarcasm>
I certainly don’t toss my pearls before swine
Another school of thought might say that they need to be invited. They need to be invited to convert, just like the other groups do, which of course would not be ecumenical.
If you can trace YOUR church DIRECTLY back to Jesus and Peter, please post it. I can prove the line of secession from Peter to Benedict XVI.
With at least the last 1000 years being heretical.
I'll bet you a dollar that you don't because you can't.
Are you implying that a church founded upon the infallible Word of God, and not the traditions of man, is not a true New Testament church because it cannot trace its line of succession back to Saint Peter?
I’m looking at the fruits of your claim. How does a Catholic Cathedral having porn depictions of Christ bolster your claim? Seems like somewhere Rome forfeited it’s claim.
By the way, I loved you in the Tom Clancy novels brought to the big screen.
Can’t you read? I said I did NOT look at that VILE thread....answer my question on the OTHER thread please.
Answwer this one please.
Sorry, I went out an played with my kids in the 5 inches of Global Warming that was dumped on us last night.
Now, I did answer your question.
I’ll answer again: Is John Kerry, the pro-murder politician, still receiving communion at his parish? What about Kennedy?
Yeah, he meant it in the nicest possible way.
I’m a Catholic who finds Al Mohler intellectually honest, cordial, a good listener, responsive, tough, and well-equipped for the kind of dialogue which leaves all the partners more knowledgeable and more appreciative of the other fellow’s humanity.
Because he is doctrinally opposed to the distinctives of Catholicism, I would relish the chance to get together with him over a pitcher of beer (oops: well, make that lemonade) and talk religion, politics, society, life.
I esteem Dr. Mohler as a kind of role model. He’s living proof that you can be uncompromising defender of your beliefs without being a polemical berserker.
“Leaders from the New York area who will personally greet the pope include...Bishop David H. Benke, president of the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.”
I thought there was a big controversy when a Missouri Synod representative attended an ecumenical service after 9/11. Any Synod Lutherans out there surprised that Benke will be at the service with the Pope. (I’m not asserting that LCMS has anything against the Pope; just that I thought LCMS didn’t participate in any ecumenical stuff.)
What these stories curiously omit is that the Diocese of Vienna does not own the Museum --- which is across the street from the Cathedral --- nor does the Cardinal-Archbishop control it. They could, however, have learned this from the Museum website:
Der Verein der Freunde des Erzbischöflichen Dom- und Diözesanmuseums unterstützt das Museum in ideeller und materieller Weise, vor allem in dem Bemühen, mit zusätzlichen Veranstaltungen kunstsinnige Menschen für das Museum zu begeistern.
The Museum is supported "ideeller und materieller" (in policy and finances) by the "Friends of the Diozesanmuseum."
Here's the bottom line:
"The museum took down the Last Supper piece at Cardinal Schoenborn's request just over a week after the 'Religion, Flesh and Power' exhibition opened, leaving a blank black wall at the entrance to the display.
"This has nothing to do with censorship, rather corresponds with the understood "reverence for the sacred," the Cardinal's spokesman said in a statement...
"People have said the Catholic Church has become a lot more liberal," she [Curator Martina Judt] said. "But in the end, the reactions show this perhaps isn't the case."
Which s not exactly the message highlighted by the Reuters article.
Then again, they published their story under the category of "Entertainment," and there's nothing the secular enemedia finds more entertaining than the public villification and mockery of Christians.
Post NOTHING to me until you do this, please....it's only fair. I'll answer ANY pertinent question AFTER you do that.....can you do it?? I doubt it.
I was NOT going to go to such a disgusting thread....Gamecock insists it’s the CATHOLIC CHURCH doing it. I hope he listens to YOU.
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