{"id":3696,"date":"2005-08-17T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/grumbling.html"},"modified":"2005-08-17T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T09:45:51","slug":"grumbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/grumbling.html","title":{"rendered":"Grumbling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protestant leaders express annoyance at the Catholics<\/a><\/p>\n

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Once the short meeting was arranged, they made clear they would use it to bring up some issues dividing the churches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t avoid the question of joint church services,\u201d Huber said. The Protestants want to worship with Catholics as equals, but the Catholics will not share communion with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ministry issue is unresolved,\u201d said theologian Eberhard Juengel, referring to the Vatican\u2019s long-standing refusal to recognize Protestant clergy as fully-fledged priests.<\/p>\n

Happily for World Youth Day organizers, these differences are all but invisible at the grass-roots level where Protestants are readily helping out their Catholic neighbors.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Protestant families have offered spare beds in their homes to backpacking foreign pilgrims and some Protestant churches will be open for Catholics to use as meeting places.<\/p>\n

\u201cCologne is far away. I\u2019m not going to let anything ruin the good ecumenical cooperation we have here,\u201d said Rev. Volker Hendricks, head of a Protestant congregation in nearby Krefeld.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why the stubborn clinging to Roman Catholicism as the reference point? Why care about our definitions? Why not be content in your own?<\/p>\n

Hmmmm.<\/p>\n

And related – I have to say that I found B16’s offer of plenary indulgences to participants in WYD in Germany….amusing.<\/p>\n

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