A New Age of Christian Unity?
At the end of October, the Roman Catholic Church announced that Anglicans could return en masse to the Catholic Church. While the announcement was greeted with joy by many Catholics and Anglicans, others remained confused. What are the differences between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion? And what might this reunification of parts of the Anglican Communion with Rome mean for the broader question of Christian unity?
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