Did I kiss the hand of the Pope? Also on bowing out of courtesy
There is rumor around, that I kissed the hand of Pope Francis or bowed to his ecclesiastical authority. This is fake news.
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There is rumor around, that I kissed the hand of Pope Francis or bowed to his ecclesiastical authority. This is fake news.
In 2021, retired Anglican Bishop Michael J. Nazir-Ali affiliated with the Catholic Church. He joined the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
Protestant theologian and scholar of sociology of religion Thomas Schirrmacher (60) will be inaugurated on Saturday as the new Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), the representative body of evangelical Christians worldwide. He is the first German to hold this office.
In addition to the German and English versions, an Italian translation has now been published. The English version remains binding in terms of content.
SPEECH Thomas Schirrmacher addressed the global dialogue of Evangelical Charismatic and Catholic Charismatic Christians with the speech „Catholics and Evangelicals and their Future together“.
The national Conferences of Bishops of the Catholic Church worldwide met at the Vatican in February 2019 for a summit on sexual abuse. Time to look back a year later, as much has happened in some countries, but there is no real progress on the global level.