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Dozens of Catholics and Protestants gathered at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., on March 18 to have discussions and find common ground on challenges facing Christianity today. The third Ecumenical Forum was intended to embody \u201cthe very prayer of Christ: that they may all be one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event is led annually by the Napa Institute<\/a>, a nonprofit that works to promote the re-evangelization of the United States and the defense of Catholicism in the public square.<\/p>\n

The gathering \u201cwas conceived as a serious dialogue centered on Jesus Christ, sacred Scripture, and the pursuit of Christian unity rooted in truth,\u201d Timothy Busch, Napa Institute founder, said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the approach of historically significant milestones including the beginning of Christ\u2019s public ministry and his crucifixion and resurrection, \u201cthe call to Christian unity grows louder,\u201d he said. \u201cNot unity at the expense of truth, but unity grounded in Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Challenges facing Christianity today<\/h2>\n

The \u201cmajor challenge\u201d for Christians in the U.S. today \u201cis for us to live what we claim we believe,\u201d Monsignor Roger Landry, who served as an emcee of the event, told EWTN News.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst and foremost, we\u2019ve got to get our own house in order and strengthen each other in order to be able to live our faith,\u201d he said. \u201cJesus gives us a high vocation to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and leaven that lifts everybody up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he warns us not to let our salt lose its flavor, not to hide our light, and not to let our leaven basically become that of the Pharisees and the Herodians rather than the leaven of the saints. So that\u2019s our first biggest challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are also \u201cmajor issues coming down the road for which we need to bring the light of our Catholic faith to the darkness that portends in some of these issues,\u201d Landry said. He detailed issues regarding the understanding of who the human person is.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the questions are going to be new, but the answers Jesus has already given, at least in seed, and we need to develop those answers credibly in order to do what Christians are supposed to do in every culture, which is to be the soul of that culture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In order to effectively engage the issues, we need to \u201crecognize the importance of prayer,\u201d Landry said. \u201cThat we pray not just on our own, but we pray for each other and eventually find occasions to pray with<\/em> each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the \u201cEcumenical Forum, we began by praying \u2026 the Nicene Creed,\u201d he said. The group then had Protestant worship and a Catholic Mass to have ample opportunities to pray together.<\/p>\n

First Catholic Mass at Museum of the Bible<\/h2>\n

The Mass was the first Catholic Mass ever offered inside the Museum of the Bible. The celebrant was Bishop Steven Lopes, head of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, established by Pope Benedict XVI in Anglicanorum Coetibus<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dedication to prayer was not the only shared practice and value the forum highlighted. Through discussion, the overall themes of strong consensus were on pro-life matters, human dignity, and matters of embracing how God made us.<\/p>\n

We have \u201chad some issues that united us here in the United States,\u201d Landry explained. \u201cThe Catholic and evangelical collaboration on the pro-life fight that culminated \u2026 with Dobbs a few years ago in the overturning, finally, of Roe v. Wade. That was a great time in which Catholics and Protestants got to know each other and what they really valued.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve likewise seen it in the defense of marriage. We\u2019re seeing it with the defense of who the human person is, that God does make us male and female, and if people sadly begin to think that they\u2019re trapped in some other identity, we need to give them real help rather than pretend as if the emperor is fully dressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ecumenical work began at a theological level, but now it\u2019s become very practical. One of the things that\u2019s happening at this Napa Institute Ecumenical Forum is we\u2019re focusing very much on how our practical collection collaboration can bring what we share in our faith much more effectively into the public square, because that public square is losing its orientation and is desperate for that type of guidance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ecumenism as \u2018an exchange of gifts\u2019<\/h2>\n

\u201cChrist prayed that we might be one as he and the Father are one, and that oneness is, at its root, love,\u201d Nathan Smith, director of ecumenism for Glenmary Home Missioners<\/a>, told EWTN News.<\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s ministry \u201cseeks to enhance understanding, reduce alienation, and foster reconciliation between Catholics, evangelicals, and Pentecostals,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the way that we lead with that is following John Paul II,\u201d who said \u201cecumenism isn\u2019t simply an exchange of ideas, but an exchange of gifts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith said Christians can foster a connection among one another by leading \u201cwith our experience of Jesus Christ,\u201d he said. Doing this \u201cinvites different types of Christians to the ecumenical table, but it also frames the way in which we engage the questions of structure as you engage it with somebody who\u2019s a co-traveler in faith, somebody who\u2019s carrying this proclamation of the Gospel within their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

When we \u201cbegin to engage our ecumenical questions from a place of friendship, from a place of recognizing that that person is a carrier of gift \u2014 we hold them differently. I think we can hold on to the conversation of Christian divisions, which can be difficult, in a new kind of way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to pay attention to what the Holy Spirit\u2019s doing, because at the same time that some dialogues are having trouble finding their footing, we have new types of Christians engaging in the question of Christian unity \u2026 And that\u2019s going to change the way we engage ecumenism. But hopefully towards a way of unity as representative of the Trinity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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