Malines Conversations
Conversations Mechelen is the name that caught the story to describe the five meetings between various personalities Anglicans and Catholics , who are required to 1921 and 1925 to the Archbishopric of Mechelen initiated Charles Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax and Lazarist Fernand Portal , under the direction of the primate of Belgium , the Cardinal Dsir Joseph Mercier.
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A new process
These meetings are a first informal exchange and daring between Catholics and Anglicans with semi-tacit agreement of authorities on both sides, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Thomas Davidson and Pope Pius XI , at a time when the Catholic Church is yet obsessed by the fear of modernism .
The encyclical Mortalium animosity (1928) block shortly after the company Ecumenical Catholic side and wait Vatican II for an ecumenical dialogue can see daylight. Only in March 1966 that Pope Paul VI and Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey decided to resume a formal dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.
Nevertheless, some consider the Malines conversations are a crucial step in the history of modern ecumenism .
References
Bibliography
- The Malines Conversations of Dsir-Joseph Mercier , eds. Journal of Youth, 1921.
- The Conversations at Malines, 1923. Letters of HE Card. DJ Mercier to his Clergy, ed. the "Journal of Youth", 1924.
- (In) Lord Halifax, The Conversations at Malines, 1921-1925: Original Documents, ed. Peter Allan & Co., 1930
- (In) Emmanuel Lanne, The United Anglican Church & the unabsorbed cumenical Context Of The Malines Conversations in Irenikon, 1996, vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 5-45
- (En) A. Denault and J. Dick, ed., From Malines to ARCIC. The Malines Conversations Commemorated, ed. Leuven University Press / Peeters, al. Ephemeridum Bibliotheca Theologicarum Lovaniensium, CXXX), 1997, review online
Sources partial
- Article Malines Conversations, in An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalian, ed. Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, online
- Stanley L. Jaki, The Malines Conversations Malign & What Was There, in New Oxford Review, July-August 2002, Online
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