A German Protestant bishop today (April 30, 2010) urged Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches to draw up a joint declaration on their shared beliefs about the Eucharist -- one of the issues that has divided them for hundreds of years since the Reformation.
"Our understandings of the Eucharist of Lord's Supper are no longer that far apart," said Lutheran Bishop Friedrich Weber, who deals with relations between the Catholic Church and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD), a grouping of eight German regional Protestant churches.
This follows a separate initiative of a group set up by Lutheran and Catholic churches in Sweden and Finland.
This group has been discussing ways in which the two church traditions might advance the results of a 1999 joint Lutheran-Catholic declaration on the doctrine of justification, according to the Ecumenical News International (ENI) website.
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