Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.57.s1.2
The Issue of Papacy in Ecumenical Documents between the Catholic Church and Ecumenical Partners
Ivan Macut
orcid.org/0000-0001-8343-8902
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
The papacy is one of the main obstacles on the ecumenical path that the Catholic Church and its ecumenical partners walk together. As this issue is extremely important, the Catholic Church, since it intensively joined the contemporary ecumenical movement after the Second Vatican Council, has been speaking about it with its ecumenical partners in bilateral and multilateral documents. In this paper, all ecumenical documents that discuss this issue will be investigated, from the time immediately after the Second Vatican Council until the most recent time. Also, in an ecumenical spirit, both the problematization of this issue and some of the solutions that have been offered will be illuminated, all with the aim of bringing together and uniting the separated Christians. Therefore, this paper will provide an overview of this extremely important ecumenical issue within the framework of the set topic.
Keywords
papacy; Catholic Church; orthodoxy; Protestants; ecumenical documents; the unity of the Church
Hrčak ID:
288151
URI
Publication date:
16.1.2023.
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