<DIV><A target=_blank name=70255><FONT color=#000040><B>Catholic-Anglican Statement on Virgin Mary Is Near</B></FONT></A><BR>Joint Document to Be Released This Month <BR><BR>VATICAN CITY, MAY 2, 2005 (<A href="http://www.zenit.org/" target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>Zenit.org</FONT></A>).- A delegation of Anglicans and Catholics plans to convene in Seattle, Washington, to release a joint statement on the place of Mary in the doctrine and life of the Church.<BR><BR>The document, entitled "Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ," the result of the work of the Anglo-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), represents the first major agreed-on statement by a formal international dialogue between the two world communions on this aspect of Christian faith and devotion.<BR><BR>The document will be released May 16. The news, announced by the Anglican Communion, was confirmed by Bishop Brian Farrell, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.<BR><BR>Bishop Farrell said
of the document: "We have much hope, as it allows us to discover all the things we have in common on Mary, including with the Anglican reformers of the 16th and 17th centuries, who were regarded as 'anti-Marian,' but in fact, were not."<BR><BR>"Moreover, the document addresses the problems of Catholic dogma," he told ZENIT. "We believe the document will be interesting not only for the Catholic-Anglican dialogue but also for dialogue with all the communities that arose from the Reformation."<BR><BR>The writing of the document concluded last February in Seattle. It draws together the fruits of five years of work by the ARCIC, a dialogue officially sponsored by the Anglican Consultative Council and by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.<BR><BR>As the work of ARCIC, the text is not an authoritative declaration by the Catholic Church or the Anglican Communion. With its publication, the statement will be offered for study and evaluation by Catholics and Anglicans. The
book has been published by Continuum/Morehouse Publishing USA/UK.<BR><BR>The May 16 event will be hosted by Seattle Archbishop Alexander Brunett, Catholic co-chair of ARCIC. He will be joined by his Anglican co-chair, Archbishop Peter Carnley, primate of the Anglican Church of Australia, for the statement release.<BR><BR>On May 19 at noon, the book will be launched at a gathering in Westminster Abbey in London. <BR>ZE05050206<BR></DIV><BR><BR><DIV>
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