Roman Catholics at Congress
Diocesan Press Service. September 3, 1963 [XIII-6]
TORONTO - Official representatives of the Roman Catholic Church were in evidence all through the 10-day Anglican Congress.
At a pre-Congress press conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury, representatives of the Cardinal Archbishops of Montreal and Toronto were on hand for introductions.
Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger, Archbishop of Montreal, asked his Archdiocese to pray for divine guidance to be given to the Congress.
The Coadjutor Archbishop of Toronto, the Most Rev. Philip Pocock, issued a pastoral letter for Aug. 18 asking his clergy, the religious and church people "to pray that the Holy Spirit may guide the deliberations of the Anglican Congress towards the unity of Christendom."
On the final day of the Congress, James Cardinal McGuigan, Archbishop of Toronto, paid a brief personal call on the Archbishop of Canterbury in the latter's hotel suite.
Archbishop Ramsey was presented a gold Mount Athos cross by Metropolitan Heliopolis of the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church at one of the morning sessions of the Congress.