Thousands Walk with Jesus Through the Streets of New York

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 Oct 14, 2026 

Thousands of Catholics gathered at St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the Napa Institute Mass and Eucharistic procession through Midtown Manhattan. Bishop Joseph Espaillat, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, celebrated the Mass, which brought together religious sisters, priests, friars, and other members of the Catholic community. 

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The Eucharist and 100 Priests Come to Trump's Mar-a-Lago

 
The Eucharist and 100 Priests Come to Trump's Mar-a-Lago


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 Mar 26, 2025

The recent Catholics for Catholics event at President Trump's home Mar-a-Lago on March 19th, was not only powerful, but it was also historic in these times! Fr. Heilman and Doug were both fortunate to attend with Fr Heilman speaking at the event. John Yep, CEO of Catholics for Catholics, sits down and talks about this powerful night and truly why it is so important and powerful for our country and our faith.

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Pelosi Received Communion at Vatican After Meeting With Pope

The sacrament has become a political issue, with conservative American bishops like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s own priest, who has said he will deny her the sacrament until she stops publicly supporting abortion rights.

Pope Francis greeting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul Pelosi, before celebrating a Mass on Wednesday at the Vatican.Credit...Vatican Media, via Associated Press





By Jason Horowitz
June 29, 2022


ROME — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an avid defender of abortion rights, met privately with Pope Francis on Wednesday and received communion from a priest during a papal Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, according to an attendee.

Ms. Pelosi, who has denounced the Supreme Court’s decision to strip constitutional protections for abortion as “outrageous and heart-wrenching,” sat in a V.I.P. diplomatic section of the basilica and received a blessing from Francis in private before the morning Mass celebrating the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul. She later lined up to receive communion from a priest with the rest of the congregants.

The Vatican did not return a request for confirmation about the meeting, but released a photo of Ms. Pelosi and her husband, Paul Pelosi, greeting Francis on the side of the basilica.

Pope Francis has consistently called abortion evil and murderous, and upheld the church’s absolute opposition to it, and during the Mass on Wednesday, he said church leaders must “continue to care for human life.” But Francis has also vigorously opposed the politicization of church sacraments, and told newly consecrated archbishops upon whom he bestowed the woolen pallium stole on Wednesday to be inclusive and to not “remain pinned to some of our fruitless debates.”

He added, “So many times we become a church with open doors, but only to send people away, to condemn them.”

Earlier in the day, Francis issued a new apostolic letter about church liturgy, in which he emphasized that celebrating Mass belongs to “the totality of the faithful united in Christ.”

“The liturgy does not say ‘I’ but ‘we,’” Francis wrote, “and any limitation on the breadth of this ‘we’ is always demonic.”

Francis has said in the past that “I have never refused the Eucharist to anyone,” and has preached that communion “is not the reward of saints, but the bread of sinners.” The Vatican has urged conservative bishops in the United States not to reduce the sacrament to a political issue after several floated the idea last year of denying communion to President Biden and other Catholic leaders supportive of abortion rights. Ms. Pelosi’s hometown priest, the conservative Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, had said he would deny her the sacrament until she stops publicly supporting abortion rights.

The divide between such conservative American bishops and Pope Francis, who has explicitly identified the United States as the source of opposition to his pontificate, has amounted to a rare open rift in the church. Francis’ top doctrinal official, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, last year wrote a letter to the American bishops warning them that moving ahead on an effort to deny communion to Catholic supporters of abortion rights could “become a source of discord rather than unity within the episcopate and the larger church in the United States.”

Well before Ms. Pelosi’s visit on Wednesday, Francis had made it clear through the symbolism favored by the Vatican that he prefers an inclusive approach.

In a visit to Rome in October, President Biden, the first Roman Catholic to occupy the Oval Office in 60 years, received communion at St. Patrick’s Church in Rome after announcing that Pope Francis had told him during their long private meeting at the Vatican that he should continue taking the sacrament. The Vatican declined to comment at the time.

On Tuesday night, at a reception with hot dogs and hamburgers ahead of Independence Day at the residence of the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, Ms. Pelosi gave the evening’s toast before a crowd of hundreds, including ambassadors and priests, and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Callista Gingrich and her husband, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Ms. Pelosi spoke about the importance of faith and called Mr. Biden a man of deep faith.

“Faith is an important gift, not everyone has it but it is the path to so many other things,” she said.

On Wednesday, Ms. Pelosi, who is also visiting with Italian leaders during her time in Rome, followed the Mass with a visit to the Sant’Egidio Community, a Catholic charity that Francis admires for its work with refugees and the poor.

Ms. Pelosi met with refugees there and, at an event marking a $25,000 gift from the State Department to the charity, mentioned her attendance at the Mass with Francis and church leaders and spoke about the importance of preaching the Gospel through actions.

“We had the pleasure of attending Mass this morning with His Holiness and many, many, many leaders of the church,” Ms. Pelosi said. “In the spirit of St. Francis, which is the name of His Holiness and my city of San Francisco, I thank you for preaching the Gospel, sometimes using words.”

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Creating barriers to the Eucharist

Sean Hall
United Kingdom

June 10, 2021

It was announced on May 29 that on the previous day the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, had married his fiancée in a Catholic marriage service in Westminster Cathedral.

Johnson, who has been divorced twice, was baptized a Catholic but as a student at Eton College had been confirmed in the Church of England and has not professed any allegiance to the Catholic Church since.

The news of his new marriage has caused uproar in Catholic circles in Britain, not least because of how many have been hurt by the way they have been treated by Church officials when, as divorcees or intending to marry a divorcee, they have asked for a blessing or even admittance to holy communion.

This all came to mind at the Church's recent celebration of Corpus Christi -- the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the Gospel account Jesus sits down to the most solemn festive meal in the Jewish calendar, the Passover. And while at table he will give his companions the gift of the Eucharist, his own Body and Blood in a new ritual meal.

Jesus is surrounded by a motley crew of twelve friends .

Only a few hours later one of them, Judas, will betray him to the Jewish authorities.

Another, Peter, who is looked upon as the leader of this group, will deny three times that he even knew Jesus. Along nine other apostles, Peter will desert Jesus at his hour of greatest need.

Only one of the friends , the one called John, will be there with Jesus at the foot of the cross.

Even so, Jesus welcomes all twelve to join him at table during this solemn occasion.

Given this paradigm example it might seem surprising that the Church community that would emerge from that group, would spend time working out, eventually in the minutest detail, who may and who may not be welcomed at the table of the Eucharist; indeed who is welcome at the other sacraments as well.

First, the new community had to come to realize that not only Jews, but Gentiles were also welcome.

Later, however, they will begin to exclude others: public sinners, for example, which at the time included apostates (those who renounced their faith during a persecution); adulterers and murderers.

This became ever more refined over the centuries, and so we still have many people who, according to their state in life are excluded from the sacraments, including, for example, technically, the divorced and remarried, and those who belong to another Christian Church not in communion with Rome.

So, it came as a surprise to all -- consternation to some, while anger and outrage to others -- to learn that Britain's twice-divorced Prime Minister and his fiancée were married recently in a Catholic marriage service at Westminster Cathedral.

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Pope Francis asks German bishops for ‘unanimous’ decision on intercommunion with Protestants

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Pope Francis asks German bishops for ‘unanimous’ decision on intercommunion with Protestants

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VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has asked the bishops of Germany to come to a “unanimous” decision on whether a Protestant spouse who is married to a Catholic may receive the Holy Eucharist in some exceptional cases.

The news follows reports that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the Pope’s approval, had already written a letter to German bishops rejecting their proposal to allow some Protestant spouses to receive Holy Communion. According to the reports, Pope Francis did not wish the letter to be made public because it didn’t “fit the narrative and direction” of this pontificate.

In a statement released this evening, after a meeting between German bishops and Vatican officials, Archbishop Luis Ladaria, SJ, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, explained that Pope Francis “appreciates the ecumenical commitment of the German bishops and asks them to find, in a spirit of ecclesial communion, a unanimous result if possible.”

During the talks, which were convened at 4pm at the offices of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “various points of view” were discussed, including “the relationship of the question [of intercommunion] with faith and pastoral care, its relevance for the universal Church and its juridical dimension,” the statement read.

Pope in Molfetta: the Eucharist is the 'trademark' of the Christian

Pope Francis to All Catholics: The Eucharist Is Jesus Christ

RELIGION

AUGUST 17, 2015


The Pope's Sunday Angelus address

DIANE MONTAGNA

AFP



VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday reminded all Catholics of the Church’s teaching on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, stressing that at the Holy Mass, the sacred host is “really his Body given for us” and the chalice of what appears as wine “is really his Blood poured out for us.”

Speaking to pilgrims from his studio in the apostolic palace before praying the noonday Angelus, the Pope commented on Jesus’ bread of life discourse contained in the Gospel of St. John, chapter 6.

The Holy Father acknowledged that some in the crowd were shocked and even scandalized by the Lord’s words: “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life” (Jn 5:51-54).

But he said the Lord’s teaching is clear: The Eucharist is neither a symbol nor even a thing, but rather a divine Person who desires that we live in intimate communion with Him.

“The Eucharist is Jesus who gives himself entirely to us,” the Pope said. “Feeding on Him and abiding in Him through Eucharistic communion — if we do so in faith — transforms our lives into a gift to God and to our brothers and sisters.”

For a Catholic, receiving Holy Communion in a state of grace and with faith and love therefore means “entering into harmony with the heart of Christ, assimilating his choices, his thoughts, his behavior. It means entering a dynamism of love and becoming people of peace, people of forgiveness, reconciliation,” he said.

While the Pope acknowledged the astonishment of Jesus’ listeners was understandable,” nonetheless he said the Lord used “a style typical of the prophets to provoke questions in the people — and also in us — and ultimately, to provoke a decision.”

Some reports estimate that only 30% of Catholics in the West today believe in the True Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.

Yet the Catechism of the Catholic Church (paragraph 1374) clearly states the Church’s teaching: “In the most Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist ‘the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.” [Council of Trent (1551): DS 1651.]

The Catechism goes on to explain: “This presence is called ‘real’ — by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be ‘real’ too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.” [Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei, 39.]

Here below we publish a translation of the Pope’s Angelus address.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

Good day. This Sunday the liturgy sets before us, from the Gospel of John, Jesus’ discourse on the Bread of life which is Jesus himself, and which is also the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Today’s passage (John 6:51-58) presents the final part of this discourse, and makes reference to several among the people who were scandalized because Jesus said: “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day” (Jn 5:51-54).

The astonishment of the listeners is understandable. In fact, Jesus uses the style typical of the prophets to provoke questions in the people—and also in us—and ultimately, to provoke a decision.

First, the questions: What does it mean “to eat Jesus’ flesh and drink his blood? Is it only an image, a way of speaking, a symbol, or does it indicate something real? To respond, we need to understand what is happening in the Heart of Jesus as he is breaking the bread before for the hungry crowd.

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Pope Francis says Sundays are a gift from God not to be shunned

Peter Kenny


Thursday, August 13 2015

A Catholic faithful receives holy communion during an open-air Mass led by Pope Francis at Rizal Park in Manila January 18, 2015. Pope Francis concluded his trip to Asia on Sunday with an open-air Mass for a rain-drenched crowd in Manila that the Vatican and the government said drew up to seven million people, the largest ever for a papal event.

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A day of rest and prayer each week are sacred Pope Francis has said in his weekly meeting at the Vatican noting that Sunday is a day the family can enjoy one another and not be slaves to work.

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Francis held his weekly General Audience on Aug. 12 spoke of a new phase in a series of reflections on the family, to three specific facets of family life: celebration, work and prayer.

"Moments of rest, especially on Sunday, are sacred because in them we find God," said the Pope, noting that the Sunday Eucharist brings to celebrations Jesus' grace.

"The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. Moments of rest, especially on Sunday, are sacred because in them we find God.

"The Sunday Eucharist brings to our celebrations every grace of Jesus Christ: his presence, his love and his sacrifice; his forming us into a community, and his way of being with us."

Francis said that true moments of celebration make humanity pause from work as a reminder that people "are made in the image and likeness of God, who is not a slave to work, but the Lord of work."

"And so we must never be slaves to work but rather its master."

Church attendance in many countries on Sundays has plummeted in recent years and in some nations once considered to be Christian the day of rest has become a shopping day.

The Argentine pontiff said it well known that millions of men and women, even children, are slaves to work.

"The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. Moments of rest, especially on Sunday, are sacred because in them we find God."

He noted that Sunday Eucharist brings to humanity's celebrations "every grace of Jesus Christ: his presence, his love and his sacrifice; his forming us into a community, and his way of being with us."

The pontiff urged the recognition of the family "as the privileged place to understand, guide and sustain the gifts which arise from our celebrations, especially the Sunday Eucharist" when Christians believe they consecrate bread and wine into the body of Jesus.

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Dallas-area Catholics to answer Pope Francis' call for worldwide Sunday prayer

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The Rev. Stephen Bierschenk of St. Monica Catholic Church will lead a Eucharistic procession for the first time after Mass on Sunday, when Catholics across the globe plan to unite in prayer as part of Pope Francis’ call for an hour of Eucharistic adoration.





By ANDREA GALLO

Staff Writer

agallo@dallasnews.com

Published: 31 May 2013 10:55 PM

Updated: 31 May 2013 11:24 PM



Dallas-area Catholics will unite in prayer with 1 billion other members of their church Sunday as part of Pope Francis’ call for an hour of Eucharistic adoration — worshipping the body of Christ — at the same time all over the world.

This is the first time a pope has assembled the worldwide congregation by asking people to pray in front of the Eucharist, which at each Mass is consecrated into what Catholics believe is the body and physical presence of Jesus Christ.

Many local Catholic churches will participate at various times depending on their Mass schedules. But Pope Francis will hold his hour of prayer at 5 p.m. in Rome — or 10 a.m. Dallas time.

The pontiff declared two prayer intentions for Sunday. One prayer will be for the Catholic Church throughout the world and for the Eucharist as a sign of oneness. The other prayer will be for those who are suffering with a “silent scream” — including slaves, war victims, domestic violence victims, prisoners and the homeless.

“It is unique in the sense that we all come together with one particular intention,” said Bishop Kevin Farrell, who leads the Dallas Diocese. “We’re all part of the same human family, and there has been and is so much suffering. We need to start paying attention to the fact that all of this [suffering] goes on.

“We have to look at the number of people who are suffering from violence,” he said, referring to the large number of women and children who experience domestic violence in North Texas.

Farrell will host adoration after the 3 p.m. Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in downtown Dallas.

Catholics approach adoration in many different ways. Some say specific prayers, while others read Bible passages. Many prefer to sit in silence and bask in the stillness of God.

From 11 p.m. to midnight every evening, Margie Giangiulio, a parishioner at St. Monica Catholic Church, has been praying in adoration for 15 years. “You know how some people run every day? Well, doing adoration every day gives me so much more energy,” she said. “It’s my favorite, favorite thing to do. … When we saw the pope’s request to the world, we said, ‘Oh, my gosh. This is really stupendous.’”

Giangiulio plans to attend St. Monica Catholic Church’s all-night vigil starting at 9 p.m. Saturday and ending before the 8 a.m. Sunday Mass. People from the church’s different programs will take turns lighting candles and asking for blessings.

After Mass, the Rev. Stephen Bierschenk will lead a Eucharistic procession for the first time at St. Monica, which is located on Midway Road. He hopes to turn that into a tradition. “It’s more personal, remembering that you have the opportunity to be physically present with the Lord,” he said.

Bierschenk’s procession will mirror one occurring in Rome, as well. Sunday’s hour of prayer has special significance because it will occur on the Church’s Feast of Corpus Christi, which celebrates the belief in Jesus’ real presence in the Eucharist.

Patty Daniel, a member of St. Rita Catholic Church on Inwood Road, said praying in adoration on the feast of Corpus Christi emphasizes Eucharistic miracles, such as the Miracle of Lanciano. That’s when a Catholic parish witnessed the bread and wine transform into flesh and blood around the year 700 in Italy. “It’s just a beautiful feast to be publicly aware of Christ’s presence,” Daniel said.

Holy Trinity Catholic Church, located on Oak Lawn Avenue, will hold its prayer hour at 10 a.m. to coincide with Rome. “It’s all across the world, so you’re talking about a little island in the Pacific to the Basilica in Rome all the way maybe to a Marine station in Afghanistan,” said Benny Ruiz, parish liturgist at Holy Trinity.

Farrell encouraged people to read Chapter 25 of the Bible’s book of Matthew in adoration Sunday — in particular, verses 31-46, when Jesus talks about caring for those most in need. He proclaims: “Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.”

“That should be enough for all of us,” Farrell said. “Whether we’re lifelong Catholics or lukewarm Catholics or Catholics on Christmas and Easter, when you read that 25th chapter in St. Matthew’s Gospel, you have to be impressed.”

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Senior Vatican figure regrets lack of shared communion

By Ecumenical News International
23 Jul 2010

The recently retired senior Vatican official responsible for ecumenical affairs has said his biggest regret during his tenure in Rome is that he did not achieve an agreement on a common communion with Protestants - writes Anli Serfontein.

"Today, there is a lot of convergence. So, we got closer to each other but we could not achieve the final breakthrough. I regret it very much but you cannot push the issue," said Cardinal Walter Kasper, who retired on 1 July 2010 as president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

"The main thing that I did not achieve is the sharing of Holy Communion," Kasper told ENInews in an interview in Stuttgart, while attending, as a special guest, the 20-27 July assembly of the Lutheran World Federation.

Kasper, now aged 77, became president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in 2001; he had served the previous two years as its secretary. Originally from Germany, Kasper is a former professor of theology in Münster and Tübingen, and was bishop of Stuttgart from 1989 to 1999.

Soon after he became secretary of the Vatican's unity council, Kasper took part in the signing on 31 October 1999, Reformation Day, of the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" between the Roman Catholic Church and the LWF. This aimed to overcome condemnations, dating back to the 16th century, between the papacy and reformer Martin Luther and his followers.

However, sharing in the Eucharist, or Holy Communion, the central Christian sacrament that commemorates Jesus' last meal with his disciples, remains a point of contention. Catholic teaching prevents Protestants in most situations receiving communion from Catholic priests, and says Catholics should not receive communion in Protestant churches.

"Of course, I regret it very much because I know the concrete problems in families, and between good friends and partners," said Kasper. "I know what these problems are but I cannot jump over the whole existing doctrine. It is a problem that still exists but I think we also achieved some things. Maybe not consensus but convergence."

Kasper's words echoed those of LWF president Mark S. Hanson from the United States, who earlier in the day told a media conference that the Lutheran commitment to ecumenism will not end until Lutherans can share the Eucharist with other churches.

"We must continue the dialogue about theological issues that still prevent us from communing together," said Hanson.

The LWF president had been asked if he could envisage a day when a married couple in which one partner was a Catholic and the other a Lutheran could share in communion together with the blessing of both churches. Hanson responded by saying that it is the lay people of the churches who are driving and sustaining these conversations, and he acknowledged the "grassroots ecumenism" that is alive among lay people.

"If Roman Catholics and Lutherans can feed the hungry together, wouldn't it be good if they could be fed at the Lord's Table together?" Hanson said.

Kasper said in an address to LWF assembly delegates, "In the last years, we have been harvesting the fruit of the dialogue. I was more than surprised to see such a rich harvest, and that we have achieved much more than we could even dream before. There has been no ecumenical winter."

Still, he acknowledged that there is an unfinished agenda and that this should be the reason to continue the search for unity. "We can no longer afford to stick to our differences," Kasper told delegates.

In his ENInews interview, the former Vatican official stressed that dialogue and debate should continue. "I think for both sides it is the same thing. You must be patient, and you must be impatient at the same time," he said with a smile.

Kasper explained that he thought it may have been easier for him to engage in ecumenical discussions, since he had experienced division at first hand in the land of the Reformation. In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, thus setting in train the breach with the Catholic Church.

"The Reformation started in Germany. We are at the origin of the Reformation, and therefore Reformation and relations with Lutheran Evangelical people are a concern for us because it divided us for many centuries. It still divides families today," Kasper said.

He noted that he had studied and later taught theology at German universities that each had two theological faculties, one for Protestants and the other for Catholics.

"So, ecumenical relations belonged to our life. One has many Protestant friends. I was bishop in this diocese, which is half Protestant and half Catholic," he said. "It is a normal reality for us, and I think this helps us a lot to understand the other angle, and to understand the urgency to work for unity and communion."

In an interview in November 2009 in Wittenberg, where Luther worked and lived, Kasper noted, "We have learned a lot in the last 50 years. At the university, I spent a lot of time teaching about Martin Luther, and I have learned from that experience too."

In his Stuttgart interview, Kasper acknowledged that some sections of the Catholic Church have difficulties with such ecumenical developments but said he had the backing of both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.

Looking back at what has been achieved in terms of ecumenical progress in the last decade, Kasper said it would not have been possible without friendship with his counterparts from other traditions. He said a deep friendship had developed between him and the Rev Ishmael Noko, the Zimbabwean-born LWF General Secretary.

"Personal friendship and personal relations are fundamental to ecumenical work and for pastoral work because without personal relations, personal friendships and trust you can do nothing; it is the basis of all. Then, when you have friendship, if there is trust you can also speak about the differences and you can also achieve good results," Kasper said.

Introducing Kasper to LWF assembly delegates in Stuttgart, Noko said, "You embody in your soul the spirit of ecumenism. You have been an encourager, when obstacles seemed insurmountable, and a truth teller."

[With acknowledgements to ENI. Ecumenical News International is jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Conference of European Churches.]

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