The Anglican – Roman Catholic International Commission has completed the first meeting of its new phase (ARCIC III) at the Monastery of Bose in northern Italy (May 17-27, 2011). The Commission, chaired by the Most Reverend David Moxon (Anglican Archbishop of the New Zealand Dioceses) and the Most Reverend Bernard Longley (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham) comprises eighteen theologians from a wide range of backgrounds across the world[1]. In response to the Programme set forth by Pope Benedict and Archbishop Rowan Williams in their 2006 Common Declaration, discussions have focussed on the interrelated issues: the Church as Communion, local and universal, and how in communion the local and universal Church come to discern right ethical teaching. The Programme also required the Commission to re-examine how the “commitment to the common goal of the restoration of complete communion in faith and sacramental life”[2] is to be understood and pursued today, and to present the work of ARCIC II in its entirety with appropriate commentaries to assist its reception.
In addressing these issues, the Commission has devoted time to introducing its new members to the history and achievements of ARCIC, and has benefited from the shared experience of those who were members of previous phases. Members have worked both in plenary sessions and in small groups, developing plans to address the tasks that derive from its mandate.
Not sure why the RC’s bothered given the joke team of US and Canadian revisionists the Druid fielded in this team, notwithstanding all that rubbish about removing TEC from the Faith and Order group. What an embarrassment. What a sick joke.
Peter Carrell expresses the same concerns I have rather less robustly than I have -see here
This is a mystery, not a theological one though. That whole communion thingy puts the finish to this enterprise.
At the bottom of the page the document references the “1996 Common Declaration of Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey”. Of course, they probably hadn’t read it, but it was promulged in 1966 not ’96.
And in 1966, Senior Priest, there was some genuine hope for ways forward into a renewed Nicene Faith together. Sadly, 45 years later one really wonders!