"It is no longer an obvious thing that the ecumenical convoy moves on". This is why «together we have to desire the movement even more intensely; and we have to agree on the direction it must go". It was said by the Bishop Wolfgang Huber, President of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany as he spoke this morning at the first plenary meeting of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly about the Unity of the Church. With reference to the document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Evangelical Bishop said: "it seems to me, as usual, that ecumenism becomes heavier if the phrase "Churches in the proper sense of the word" becomes the apple of discord between the Churches". "For the Evangelical Churches said Huber the respect of the ecclesiological foundations of those who fight for the unity and the truth of Christ is a fundamental rule of ecumenism". Hence a proposal: "Today, we have to live ecumenism in the awareness that the Churches concerned do not only have a different ecclesiology, as well as different understanding of the ministry and ordination, of the relation between the Scripture and the Tradition, of the role of women within the order, but they also have a different understanding of what visible unity means". ” “
