Romans Invite Canterbury
Diocesan Press Service. May 8, 1963 [X-12]
NEW YORK, --- For the first time an Archbishop of Canterbury has been asked to lecture in a Roman Catholic University.
He is the 100th Anglican Primate, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Michael Ramsey. Dr. Ramsey's lecture will be given in Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain on Friday, May 3. His topic will be "Christian Spirituality in the Modern World. "
During his two-day Belgium visit--he will leave London on Thursday, May 2, and return on Saturday, May 4--Dr. Ramsey will pay a courtesy call on His Eminence Cardinal Suenens at the Archbishopric in Malines.
He also will meet and talk with several Roman Catholic theologians and ecumenical experts in Belgium, some of whom are involved in the Vatican Council. Among them will be Canon G. Thils, Professor of Theology at Louvain and member of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity at the Vatican.
Before returning to London, the Archbishop will celebrate Holy Communion in the Anglican Church in Brussels.