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Article: Imperial claims?(Catholic Church issues declaration of mediation role of Jesus Christ)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 18, 2000
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The Vatican reasserts its view of the church
THE PROTESTANT responses to the "Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church" recently issued by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's Office for the Doctrine of the Faith (ODF) have been mostly pained surprise, sometimes anger. Leaders in other world religions had a similar reaction. Even Catholics were taken aback by what seemed like a regressive document.
The declaration is a reaffirmation of the Catholic Church's teaching that there is only One Mediator between God and humankind, Jesus Christ. The unique mediation of Christ continues in his body, the church that he founded, ...