Latest on Lutheran/Catholics on Reformation Day, Pope visits Swedish Lutherans

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Isn't very popular in the LCMS but..................

The goal of the theological dialogue, the statement said, was to bring Catholics and Lutherans together at the Eucharistic table. 

Francis' visit "is proof of how far we have come ecumenically over the past 25-30 years," said Lisa Valkehed, a Lutheran watching the Lund event at a nearby arena.

In alternating prayers in the Lund cathedral, the Catholic and Lutheran leaders lamented the divisions and guilt of the schism and asked forgiveness for the deaths and pain that their divisions caused over history.

"We have the opportunity to mend a critical moment of our history by moving beyond the controversies and disagreements that have often prevented us from understanding one another," Francis said. "We too must look with love and honesty at our past, recognizing error and seeking forgiveness, for God alone is our judge."

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Antje was a prof at LSTC until 2007 (ELCA Lutheran seminary in Chicago, where Valpo has some programs and where there are many Valpo alums; maybe the most popular stop on the trail from the LCMS through Valpo to the ELCA clergy for many young people).

I know her best, though not personally, as director of the Zygon Center (for religion and science) there.

It's been fun to follower her career in Sweden.

And pretty interesting for the Pope to sit down with her, more or less as equals?, she being a women who's also the Primate of a church, and a liturgical church (in apostolic succession?), at that.