[marshmallow]

Younan said under such an agreement, Lutherans would be able to receive communion at a Catholic mass, and Catholics would also be able to receive communion at Lutheran services, The Christian Century said.

I'm thinking that the Rev. Younan's ecumenical vision may be somewhat different from that of Benedict XVI....... :-)

[Mr. Lucky]

The “Lutheran” churches which are members of the Lutheran World Federation have, by and large, abandoned any semblance of adherence to the Lutheran confessions.

[A.A. Cunningham]

I’m thinking that LWF president Bishop Munib Younan should be given a drug test.

[Kolokotronis]

I was wondering what “Eucharistic hospitality” was when I read the intercommunion nonsense. I suggest, however, that your bishops have only themselves to blame for the fantastical thinking of the Lutheran prelate since the Latin Rite bishops have for years attempted to use the Eucharist as a means to ecclesial unity with us Orthodox rather than as an expression of it after reunion is attained.

In any event, I trust that the Lutheran leader’s suggestion was gently and politely declined.

[danielmryan]

It could be said that the Pope opened himself up to the offer by breaking bread with Anglicans. In Canada, despite the Anglicans having "Catholic" in the formal name of their church, they're counted as Protestants in everyday life. I believe the same applies in the U.K.

That noted, putting aside old divisions would lead to a united Christian front composed of the Roman Catholic church and other churches as independent allies - a Christian answer to the "coalition of the willing."

[Salvation]

I think that Lutherans will follow the Anglicans back to the Catholic Church.

[Petrosius]

Even if tomorrow the Lutherans were to adopt the Catholic teaching on the Eucharist there would still be the question of the validity of the Lutheran Eucharist because of the lack of valid apostolic succession among their bishops. I know that the Scandinavian Lutheran bishops are descendant of their Catholic predecessors but is this true of the Germans? But even with the Scandinavians, have they maintain a true succession in their ordination rites?