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Remembering 16 April 2021
Australian Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, passed away on Saturday, 10 April, in Newcastle, Australia at the age of 96.
Born on 5 July 1924 in Sydney, Australia, to non-Catholic parents, Edward Idris Cassidy’s family split when he was just two years old. He was entrusted to the care of his paternal grandparents and, although he had been baptized into the Church of England, his grandmother brought him into the Catholic Church and he was baptized anew at Saint John the Baptist Church in Gulgong. As a boy, he attended both Catholic and
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Top Ecumenism Official “Astonished” by German Intercommunion Push Top Ecumenism Official “Astonished” by German Intercommunion Push
German bishops seem intent on proceeding despite Vatican concerns
By CNA staff / ITV staff
Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference
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Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, expressed “astonishment” January 26 at a statement by the Ecumenical Study Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians (known by its German acronym, ÖAK).
The ÖAK published the 26-page statement on January 24 in response to a critical assessment of the group’s proposal for a “reciprocal Eucharistic hospitality” between Catholics and Protestants by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
.Australian Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy died April 10 at the age of 96. He is pictured with German Lutheran Bishop Christian Krause at the signing of The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in Augsburg, Germany, Oct. 31, 1999. Cardinal Cassidy, representing the Vatican, and Bishop Krause, president of the Lutheran World Federation, signed the document marking the resolution of a doctrinal dispute that sparked the Reformation. (CNS photo/Ralph Orlowski, Reuters)
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Australian Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, a longtime Vatican diplomat and former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, died April 10 at the age of 96 in Newcastle, Australia.
World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of Cardinal Cassidy 12 Apr 2021 share this on
NEW YORK The World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of Australian Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, a longtime Vatican diplomat and former President of the Commission for the Religious Relations with the Jews, who died in Newcastle, Australia, at the age of 96.
Cardinal Cassidy served for 33 years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See before returning to Rome in 1988 to the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. In 1989, he was appointed President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, undertaking at the same time the role of President of the Commission for Religious Relations with Jews. In 1991, he was elevated to Cardinal.