Vatican Representative Plays Down ‘One True Church’ Statement
The Vatican’s President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper, has played down concerns among Europe’s Protestant Church leaders following the Vatican’s recent statement asserting that the Catholic Church is the only true church of Jesus Christ.
The 16-page July document, ratified by Pope Benedict XVI, stated that the Roman Catholic Church is “the one true Church of Christ”.
It also claimed that “communities emerging from the Reformation” – the Protestant and Anglican Churches – are “not Churches in the proper sense of the word”.
Cardinal Kasper attempted to qualify the assertion at the Third European Ecumenical Assembly, currently taking place in Sibiu, Romania....