Ecumenically, Anything Can Happen
Diocesan Press Service. November 2, 1964 [XXVI-15]
A Roman Catholic priest told General Convention's House of Deputies that "we are living in an age when anything can happen in Ecumenical relations."
The speaker was the Rev. Dom Columba Cary-Elwes, founder and prior of the St. Louis Priory, one of three official Roman Catholic observers at the Convention on the invitation of Presiding Bishop Lichtenberger and on appointment by His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis.
"We're beginning to accept some of those suggestions made so long ago, and over which we got so overheated, " he said. Calling upon Episcopalians to enter into conversation with Roman Catholics in all parts of the U.S., he voiced his hope that we can know each other as persons, understand each other as Christians, and find a unity which is greater than we thought."
Dom Cary-Elwes and his two fellow observers, the Rev. Robert F. Coerver, C. M., vice-rector of Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, and St. Louis attorney Carl Gaerther, will convey their observations to the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, in Rome.