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From: "Anglican Communion News Service" <acnslist@...>
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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: ACNS3974 ARCIC launches statement on the Blessed Virgin Mary
> ACNS 3974 | ACO | 29 APRIL 2005
>
> ARCIC launches statement on the Blessed Virgin Mary
>
> Ecumenical delegations from the Vatican and the Anglican Communion
> Office will launch 'Seattle Statement' 16 May
>
> (ACNS London) An international delegation of Anglicans and Roman
> Catholics will convene in Seattle, USA, 16 May to release a joint
> statement of understanding on the place of Mary in the doctrine and life
> of the Church. The document, entitled Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ,
> represents the first major agreed statement by a formal international
> dialogue between two Christian world communions on this important aspect
> of Christian faith and devotion.
>
> The statement draws together the fruits of five years of work by the
> Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), a dialogue
> officially sponsored by the Anglican Consultative Council and by the
> Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
>
> As the work of ARCIC, the text is not an authoritative declaration by
> the Roman Catholic Church or the Anglican Communion. With its
> publication, the statement will be offered for study and evaluation by
> the churches. The book has been attractively published by
> Continuum/Morehouse Publishing USA/UK.
>
> The document is referred to as the 'Seattle Statement' because members
> of ARCIC completed it in Seattle during their February 2004 meeting. The
> theologians who constitute the commission include bishops, clergy,
> religious and laypersons from 10 different countries.
>
> The May 16 event will be hosted by Seattle Archbishop Alexander J
> Brunett, Roman Catholic co-chair of ARCIC. Archbishop Brunett will be
> joined by his Anglican co-chair, Archbishop Peter Carnley, Primate of
> the Anglican Church of Australia, for the statement release. The Revd
> Don Bolen (Vatican) and the Revd Canon Gregory Cameron (Anglican
> Communion), co-secretaries of ARCIC will also be present.
>
> A news conference is scheduled for 10am, 16 May, in Seattle at 910
> Marion St to announce the publication of the agreed statement.
>
> LONDON LAUNCH
>
> On 19 May at 12 Noon, the book will be launched at a gathering in
> Westminster Abbey (Jerusalem Chamber) in London, England. Press and
> media are welcome to register to attend. Contact Canon James Rosenthal
> +44 (0) 780 389 4751. The launch is being hosted by the Revd Canon
> Nicholas Sagovsky, a member of ARCIC and Canon Theological of
> Westminster. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham, England, the Most
> Revd Malcolm MacMahon, a member of ARCIC and other church leaders.
>
> ENDS
>
> The statement is published in book form, published by
> Continuum/Morehouse
>
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