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Unjustly Condemned?: Roman Catholic Involvement in the APUC 1857–64

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

E. B. Stuart
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The Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom (APUC), a joint Anglican/Roman Catholic association of prayer, was founded on 8 September 1857. Seven years later it was condemned by the Holy See for encouraging indifferentism by claiming that the Roman, Greek and Anglican Churches had an equal right to the title ‘Catholic’, the distinctive mark of a true Church. The papal rescript in which the condemnation was contained, Ad omnes Angliae episcopos, also offered a precise definition of the nature of the ‘Catholic Church’ which, in effect, excluded all possible schemes for reunion between the Churches except on the basis of unconditional submission to the Holy See.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 44 - 63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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