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Article: An unfinished agenda: the question of Roman Catholic membership of the World Council of Churches, 1968-1975.(WCC-Roman Catholic Relations: Two Historical Perspectives)
- Article from:
- The Ecumenical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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I. AN ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED...
The possibility of Roman Catholic membership of the World Council of Churches was first broached in November 1966 at the fourth meeting of the Joint Working Group between the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church (JWG) in Cret-Berard, Switzerland.(1) Despite this "trial balloon", however, it is generally accepted that the real launching of the membership question took place at the WCC's fourth assembly (Uppsala 1968).
Numerically speaking, Rome's official participation at the Uppsala assembly was small, and the Catholics simply had observer status. Even so, in many respects their presence turned the ...