500 years schism: Cardinal Kasper hopes 2017 "common worship and confession of guilt"
(Mainz) In 2017 the Lutherans are to celebrate Reformation 500 years of schism initiated in 1517. [If any are left.] The former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity , Cardinal Walter Kasper, is encouraging that the Lutheran churches and the Catholic Church "should celebrate common worship" in 2017. In this "worship" both sides should put aside their doctrinal commitments. Cardinal Kasper said on Friday in Münster: "In this we should take a confession of guilt that we have not met the requirement of unity." The "two churches" should "thank the ecumenical movement and promise" to decide to continue along those lines. A proposal has already been submitted by the Cardinal in the summer of 2012 as part of Ratzinger Student Circle at Castel Gandolfo. The two sides are put at the same level and suggested to share in the same "fault", without any discussion of substantive differences and questions.
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