Pope in Sweden Could Break Ground on Inter-Communion, Bishop Says

Crux ^ | 10/21/16 | Austin Ivereigh

[marshmallow]

The English bishop William Kenney is a key figure in the official Catholic-Lutheran dialogue, and will be with Pope Francis in Sweden at the end of the month. He believes unity is a matter of decades away, and it's possible that Francis may use the trip to make a gesture on inter-communion.

To describe English bishop William Kenney as an “auxiliary of Birmingham” doesn’t capture the depth and range of his longstanding roles in pan-European church bodies - for two terms, for example, he was president of Caritas Europe, and he played a key role in organizing relief efforts for former Soviet countries following the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

Next week he will be part of a small, inner core at the joint Catholic-Lutheran commemoration of the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation for which Francis will be going to Sweden. It’s the first visit by any pope to Scandinavia since John Paul II’s 1989 visit, which Kenney, incidentally, coordinated.

A fluent Swedish-speaker who spent 37 years in Sweden, Kenney - who also speaks good German - has long been involved with ecumenical dialogues at the inter-Nordic level, especially in the formal dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans. In 2013 he was appointed by the Holy See as co-chair of the international dialogue between the Lutheran World Federation and the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

Recently he sat down with Crux in London to talk through the background to the event, the dialogue that’s expected to take place, and what Pope Francis might do or say to take it to a new level.

The Anglicans were recently in Rome to celebrate 50 years of relations and ecumenical dialogue. The dialogue with the Lutherans has been going on since the 1960s. How would you compare the two?

They’re the two big.....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not to be outdone by the no-borders one-world government globalist drones, Frances presses for a no-borders one-world globalist religion.

[ebb tide]

Bergoglio has already, on multiple occasions broken ground on "inter-communion" with the Lutheran heretics:

Pope Francis stirs debate on Lutheran spouses of Catholics receiving Communion

Magister: Lutherans Given Communion in Rome after Papal Audience

[Arthur McGowan]

Bergoglio IS a Lutheran. The Catholic hierarchy will sit on their hands, waiting for the biological solution.

[Ann Archy]

OMG!! He is one DANGEROUS Pope.

[piusv]

I think it’s very important that people know that the Reformation was a great misunderstanding, we all got it wrong, on both sides, and we’ve lifted excommunications and condemnations and apologized. So we can all be friends.

Wheeee! Kumbaya! And where does all of this come from really? Vatican II. According to Vatican II, the Church of Christ only "subsists in" the Catholic Church now (rather than "is" the Catholic Church) and Christ uses all churches as means of salvation!

Anyone who has an issue with what Francis is doing by commemorating Luther and the Reformation and any of this so-called Catholic-Lutheran dialogue need to take a close, hard look at Vatican II teachings and the eventual effects. There the seeds were planted...no one should be surprised at the seeds' growth decades later.

[BipolarBob]

One world government, one world currency and one world religion. The utopia of Satan.