Some 600 members of the Church of England are preparing to be received into the Catholic Church this Easter as members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Read the rest of the story here.

Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth: An Unofficial Protestant-Catholic Dialogue • June 19-22, 2011  @ Princeton Theological Seminary Lectures: Divine Being: Robert Jenson  • Richard Schenk Trinity: Guy Mansini, OSB • Bruce McCormack Christology: Keith Johnson • Thomas Joseph White, OP Grace and Justification: Amy Marga • Joseph Wawrykow Divine and Human Action: Holly Taylor Coolman […]

Auxiliary Bishop Peter Elliott of Melbourne, a former Anglican who now serves as the Holy See’s delegate for the Australian ordinariate, is urging Anglo-Catholics to “lay down [their] weapons” and seek full communion with the Holy See. Read the whole story here.

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MADRID, Spain, FEB. 23, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Anglicans and Catholics in Spain have made official a mutual recognition of the validity of baptism in both confessions. Bishop Adolfo González Montes of Almeria, president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference’s ecumenical relations department, and Episcopal Bishop Carlos López Lozano signed Tuesday a joint declaration on baptism. Read the […]

There’s been encouraging — sometimes tantalizing — news in recent years about the growing potential for Catholic-Orthodox unification. Pope Benedict XVI is said to be viewed more favorably by the Orthodox than his predecessor. The Catholic Archbishop of Moscow exclaimed in 2009 that unity with the Orthodox could be achieved “within months.” And the North […]

This conference was held on Saturday, Feb 5, 2011 at St. Paul’s Orthodox Church in Irvine, CA. Speakers included Fr. Ronald Roberson, Associate Director of Ecumenical Affairs for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Fr. Thomas Fitzgerald, the Dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Also in attendance were Metropolitan Gerasimos […]

Catholic leaders in Belarus celebrated the annual week dedicated to Christian unity by gathering and breaking bread with local heads of Orthodox, Lutheran and other other Christian denominations. Read the full post here.

True Christian unity, the Pope continued, “cannot be realized only at the level of organizational structures,” but must be forged among the faithful, “confessing the one faith, celebrating divine worship in common, and keeping the fraternal harmony of the family of God.” Read the full story here.

It looks like the first moves towards establishing an ordinariate in the United Kingdom have been made by the Traditional Anglican Communion in this country. According to Anglo-Catholic, the group–which is small in Britain– has made a formal request to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Read the full story here.