UNITY OF CHURCHES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20742, 28 February 1939, Page 12

UNITY OF CHURCHES

A SIGNIFICANT EVENT • An event in Sydney this month which was not without its significance was the visit which the members of the Council of Churches in New South Wales —an organisation representative of the Protestant denominations—paid to the head of the Roman : Catholic community in the Sydney i diocese, Archbishop Kelly, who, al- ; though now living practically in rei tirement in his advanced years, is still a powerful force In the life of the Church. The Sydney Morning Herald, In a leading article, commented: “If Archbishop Kelly could not see his way to go so far along the path of co-opera-tion as some of his confreres abroad, the occasion witnessed an interesting ! affirmation of unity upon certain great 1 fundamentals of Christianity. In other j countries during recent years this j sense of underlying unity has been i growing in strengtli and has tended to | reconcile divisions between various brancelis of Christendom. Actual re- ! union of the churches may not yet I be in sight . . . Distinctions of dogma. however, lost some of their old sharpness, and lines of belief are not now drawn so narrowly as in the i past.”