REUNITED CHURCH
Pope Urged As Head (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copurioht) LONDON, August 11. World Anglican and Episcopal church leaders were asked on Friday to consider looking upon the Pope as their head if ever the Christian Churches were reunited. “The Papacy is a historic reality whose claims must be carefully weighed in any scheme for the reunion of Christendom,” states a draft report prepared by a group of Anglican bishops for the Lambeth conference.
“Within the whole college of bishops and in ecumenical councils it is evident that there must be a president whose office involves a personal concern for the affairs of the whole Church. This president might most fittingly be the occupant of the historic See of Rome.”
The report says that Anglicans could not accept Roman Catholic claims of the Pope’s infallibility as at present understood but adds: “We believe that a considerable majority of Anglicans would be prepared to accept the Pope as having a primacy of love, implying both honour and service, in a renewed and reunited Church, as would seem right on both historical and pragmatic grounds.” The 460 bishops attending the conference will debate the report after it has been further considered in committee.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31755, 12 August 1968, Page 13
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