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Millions.
"The Catholic Church embraces with hope the commitment to ecumenism as a duty of the Christian conscience enlightened by faith and guided by love?Jesus himself, at the hour of his Passion, prayed 'that they may all be one' (John 17:21)." -- Pope John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint, May 25, 1995.
The Catholic Church in the United States already has the following open dialogs with her sister Churches:
? The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation
? The Joint Committee of Orthodox and Catholic Bishops
? The Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation
? The Polish National Catholic-Roman Catholic Dialogue
? The Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation USA
? The Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue
? Roman Catholic-Reformed Consultation
? The United Methodist-Catholic Dialogue
? Southern Baptist Convention-Catholic Dialogue
? The Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue
? Faith and Order Commission, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html
Here are statements by Evangelical and Catholic Christians together on:
? The Bible, "Your Word is Truth" (2002) http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2058
? "The Communion of Saints" (2003) http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=459
? "The Call to Holiness" (2005) http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=171
http://www.usccb.org/seia/officialdialogues.shtml
With love in Christ.
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