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Honji Suijaku: Shell Game of the Gods
July-August 2023When one set of gods merges with another, all that’s really needed is to make charts designating which god goes where. More gods? Bigger chart. Easy.
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Ecumenism: A Reassessment
July-August 2023The desire for Christian unity can assume such importance that insistence on points of doctrine comes to be regarded as inconvenient or divisive.
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Overcoming the Evils of Ecclesial Division
January-February 2020The robust friendship of 20th-century Swiss theologians Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar offers a different approach to ecumenical dialogue.
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Catholic Dreamers’ Failed Dialogue with Islam
November 2018Interreligious talks have proven fruitless, and our own theologians have not told us even the minimum of truth about Islam.
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The Futility of Trying to Derive a Religion from a Book
November 2018‘Scripture Alone’ fails both Muslims and Protestants, as living by one text leads to problems of authority and fundamentalism.
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Who Determines Scripture's "Plain Meaning"?
July-August 2018The "I'm too catholic to be Catholic" line of argumentation falls to a subjectivity or "lowest common denominator" critique.
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A Trialogue With C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther & Thomas Aquinas
December 2017C.S. Lewis is sitting alone late at night at his big oak desk at The Kilns, Oxford, writing Mere Christianity, his little masterpiece...
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A Year of Magical Thinking
November 2016The chief rabbi of Poland said that while "there's not a silence" about the persecution of Christians around the world, "there is not enough yelling and screaming."
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Francis & the Lutherans: Intercommunion Confusion
January-February 2016A joint document published by the U.S. bishops and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America leaves unsaid how "Eucharistic hospitality" can be accomplished without violating Catholic practice.
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The Perils of Ecumenical Straight-Talk
May 2015The apostolate of ecumenical clarification requires a willingness to see friends make themselves into enemies.
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On Reunion Between East and West
June 2008Reunion between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches should be the foremost focus of Catholic relations with other ecclesial bodies.
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"A Striking Rejection of Magisterial Teaching"?
July/August 2004Dear Fr. Neuhaus, ecumenical dialogue is not magisterial teaching
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Some Ecumenical Straight-Talk
May 2004Ecumania is burning itself out. Nevertheless, the Catholic Church's bilateral ecumenical dialogues just go on and on.
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The Catch-22 of Ecumenical Relations With Evangelicals
November 2002When I became a Catholic, many of my Evangelical friends supported me, while my Anglo-Catholic friends kept silence almost to a man.
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Zen Ecumenism
July/August 2002Instead of universal salvation, let's focus on ecumenism, where again we see that Fr. Neuhaus is more theologically liberal than many people realize.
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God Is Dead but Woody Allen Lives?
October 1989The dialogue between American Jews and Christians in our time is actually a triangular conversation. The third partner is the voice of “the world.”
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On Ecumenism & the Amazing Unity of Catholics
November 1988The Church uses theological disputes to teach her doctrine, as controversy raises fundamental issues.
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