Pope Francis sent two observers to the council: Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and the pontifical council’s secretary, Bishop Brian Farrell.

Sweden's Catholic cardinal came to Washington, D.C., in August for an ecumenical dialogue with a Lutheran bishop. In NCR interviews, the two prelates spoke about their hopes for Pope Francis ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday, marking the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity's first ecumenical council. The first Council of Nicaea (located in modern ...

Protestant, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic church leaders gathered in Baltimore yesterday to affirm their commitment to interfaith cooperation and to honor a retiring bishop for his contributi… ...

ROME — German Cardinal Walter Kasper has been appointed head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, the Vatican's ecumenical department. On March 3 Pope John Paul announced, as ...

Bishop Lawrence M. Wooten and a committee of Ecumenical Leadership Council members, recently met with Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski for a private luncheon at the St. Louis Archdiocese in Shrewsbury.

Despite last-minute defections by representatives of four Orthodox Patriarchates, a spokesman for the Ecumenical Patriarch insists that the Council of the Orthodox Churches will still speak for ...

Cardinal Cushing is one of the five American prelates heading 240 members of the American hierarchy scheduled to participate in the Council, the first summoned by the Catholic Church in 100 years.

The pope has appointed Basel Bishop Kurt Koch as a top Vatican ecumenical advisor, heading the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. This content was published on June 30, 2010 - 15:43 ...

Germany’s Third Ecumenical Convention concluded in Frankfurt May 16 with an open-air church service on the bank of the River Main. With the city’s skyline of office towers providing the ...