Vatican urges Anglican Communion to heal deep division

Marites N. Sison
staff writer
Jul 24, 2008

Canterbury, England: A high-ranking Vatican Cardinal Tuesday called for greater unity between Anglicans and Catholics but at the same time gave veiled advice that the Anglican Communion must address deep division within its ranks.

Evangelization is “possible in the measure in which there is unity and cohesion between the members of the Church, between them and their shepherds, and, above all, between the shepherds themselves, both within the community as well as with the other Christian confessions,” Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Rome-based Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, told the world’s Anglican bishops gathered here for the Lambeth Conference. the rest