{"id":37135,"date":"2013-02-04T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_major_baptism_agreement_signed_by_catholic_and_reformed_churches\/"},"modified":"2013-02-04T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T19:00:54","slug":"rns_major_baptism_agreement_signed_by_catholic_and_reformed_churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37135","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Major Baptism Agreement Signed by Catholic and Reformed Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of Catholic and Reformed churches have signed an agreement to recognize each other\u2019s sacraments of baptism, a public step toward unity among groups that are often divided by doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaptism establishes the bond of unity existing among all who are part of Christ\u2019s body and is therefore the sacramental basis for our efforts to move towards visible unity,\u201d\u009d reads the \u201cCommon Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Baptism.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The document was signed, after seven years of discussion, at a worship service Tuesday (Jan. 29) at St. Mary Cathedral in Austin, Texas, which opened the annual meeting of Christian Churches Together in the USA, an ecumenical network created in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2013-01-31\/national\/36654063_1_baptism-church-groups-unity\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of Catholic and Reformed churches have signed an agreement to recognize each other\u2019s sacraments of baptism, a public step toward unity among groups that are often divided by doctrine. \u201cBaptism establishes the bond of unity existing among all who<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37135\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,581,422,158,154,364,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptism","category-baptists","category-ecumenical-relations","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}