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Little evidence so far that Anglican leaders plan to join GAFCON in leaving Anglican Communion
The GAFCON statement’s potential impact was evident as soon as it landed Oct. 16. It immediately provoked intense reactions in Anglican circles around the world. The conservative Christian network, a...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Fraternity and hope strengthen relations between Catholics and Anglicans
Perspectives on the visit of the British Royal Family to the Vatican by Archbishop Pace, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, and Bishop Ball, director of the Anglican...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Pope Leo and King Charles make history with first-ever joint prayer service in Sistine Chapel
King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom were received in a private audience by Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace this morning, Oct. 23, during...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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King Charles and the Catholic ‘hand of history’
It is now 40 years since King Charles, as Prince of Wales, planned with the help of Vatican officials and the full support of Robert Runcie, who was then Archbishop...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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GAFCON says its members will leave Anglican Communion to form rival network
The conservative Anglican network GAFCON, a mix of leaders from Anglican provinces and breakaway groups, released a statement Oct. 16 saying it would disengage from the Anglican Communion’s existing deliberative...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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A message to the Anglican Communion from the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rt Revd Dame Sarah Mullally
A message of joy and hope to the Anglican Communion from the next Archbishop of Canterbury - The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE. 'Dear sisters and...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE to become 106th Archbishop of Canterbury
His Majesty The King has approved the nomination of the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, Downing Street...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Scanning is becoming easier
Scanning is becoming easier. The earliest scans in this archive were made in 2008 using a flatbed scanner. 18,000 individual JPEGs were later inserted into PDF files for posting. By...
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June 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Pope reaffirms commitment to ecumenical, interreligious dialogue
During a special audience with religious leaders who came to Rome for the inauguration of his papal ministry, Pope Leo XIV vowed to continue working towards Christian unity and promoting...
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May 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Through papal funeral, Christ proclaimed living Saviour for all
Bishop Philip Freier was Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia from 2006 until February 2025. I thought that travelling to Thursday Island in the Torres Strait was a big trip to...
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May 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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A Statement from the Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See
Together with our Roman Catholic siblings and other Christians in Rome and around the world, Anglicans enthusiastically, welcome the 'gaudium magnum' announced yesterday from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica:...
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May 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Biography of Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost
Prior to his election as Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. Here is the biography of the 267th Bishop of Rome. The...
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May 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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A message of encouragement from the Secretary General on the election of Pope Leo XIV
The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, the Rt Revd Anthony Poggo, has shared a message of encouragement on the election of Pope Leo XIV. The statement reads: With great joy,...
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May 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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WCC congratulates Pope Leo XIV
The World Council of Churches (WCC) extended ecumenical greetings to Pope Leo XIV and an assurance of continuing engagement with the Roman Catholic Church in the era of its new...
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May 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Bishop Anthony Ball commissioned as the director of the Anglican Centre in Rome in Eucharist service
A Holy Eucharist service was held in Rome to mark the commissioning of the Rt Revd Anthony Ball as the director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. It was held...
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May 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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11,000 people take part in consultations for the next Archbishop of Canterbury
More than 11,000 people have participated in the consultations for the next Archbishop of Canterbury – carried out online, by post and in person between February and March this year....
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May 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Bishop voices ‘sadness’ at continuing eucharistic separation
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity The fact that Anglicans and Catholics are not able to receive the Eucharist together yet is a matter of sadness,” the Bishop of Ossory...
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January 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Anglican Communion starts ‘long process of resolution’
The Anglican Communion is moving “from a season of raw and antagonistic division to one of reckoning with what will likely be a long process of resolution”, the Inter-Anglican Standing...
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January 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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IASCUFO Communiqué: ‘Facing our theological differences more productively’
A meeting of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) gathered in Kuala Lumpur from 6-12 December. Hosted by the Right Revd Steven Abbarow and the Diocese...
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January 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Living Ecumenism: Communion in Mission | One Body
The years following the closure of the Second Vatican Council in 1965 witnessed an explosion of bilateral ecumenical dialogues between various churches. Among these is the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission...
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December 9, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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Annual Anglican-Catholic Informal Talks
On 3 and 4 December 2024, representatives of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and the steering committees of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) and the International Anglican-Roman Catholic...
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December 11, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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“Making room for each other”: IASCUFO paper explores Anglican Communion identity
Renewing the Instruments of the Anglican Communion is the focus of a new paper called The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals released by the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO). Commissioned...
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December 7, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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Final synod document is magisterial, pope says
Doubling down on the centrality of synodality in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said that it is now up to local churches to accept and implement proposals from the final...
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November 29, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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Implementing Bluesky
As the IARCCUM.org website has developed, I have been adding little features that enhance the resources and assist people in sharing the material with colleagues and friends. A few years...
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November 20, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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From time-to-time, IARCCUM.org posts news items that are older, even several years old. IARCCUM.org is an archive, thus posting news items is principally a means of maintaining the historical record. Apologies, if some posts on Bluesky appear out of order.
Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue: Online resource centre for Anglican-Roman Catholic relations
IARCCUM.org is the official website of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission, a joint commission of the Anglican Communion and the Dicastery for Promoting Christia...
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November 19, 2024 at 10:10 PM