Vatican City, Friday, September 9, 2011 (ALC) - The International Lutheran-Catholic Commission on Unity prepares document on the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, which will be concluded in 2017.
The document will understand the Reformation in light of the 2000 years of Christian history, of which 1,500 occurred before the division of Catholics and Protestants.
Luther did not want the division of the Church, said the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Swiss Kurt Koch, who anticipated document details for the Catholic news agency KNA.
The joint commemoration of the Reformation could be an opportunity for a joint declaration of guilt on the part of Catholics and Lutherans, said Koch.
In meeting of the Lutheran World Federation President, Bishop Munib A.Younan, with Benedict XVI in Rome, on December 16, last year, the pope stressed that Catholics and Lutherans "are required to reflect again on wherethe our way to Unity drive took us and invoke God's guidance and his help for the future".
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