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	Roman Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Catholic Church sees the liturgy, the celebration of the Mystery of Christ, in particular the Paschal Mystery of his death and resurrection, as the high point of its activity and the source of its life and strength.
		Within these churches, chapels and oratories, Catholics put particular emphasis on the altar, the tabernacle, the place in which chrism and other holy oils are kept, the seat of the bishop or priest, the ambo, the baptismal font, and the confessional.
		The Church is criticized for its opposition to scientific research in fields such as embryonic stem cell research, which the Church feels constitutes destruction of the human embryo and the murder of a human life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church (9514 words)

	Christian Century: Ecumenical rebirth - Consultation on Church Union will be converted to the more far-reaching ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Churches making decisions this year are the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church, the International Council of Community Churches and the United Methodist Church.
		Churches Uniting in Christ is a revision of a plan of "covenant communion" sent to the nine churches in 1988.
		The proposal insisted, for example, that the churches need a "personalized ministry of episkope (oversight) at the middle judicatory level." In the shared life of covenant communion, these persons would be called bishops; but they would not necessarily use that title, or acquire new authority, within their own communions.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_15_117/ai_62324420 (1349 words)

	EIR
		This was the basis of A Plan of Union (1970), which included a restatement of the theological premises and the outline of a constitution for a Church of Christ Uniting.
		The proposal was sent to the churches with the request that they approve the document "as the definitive agreement for joining with other participating churches in covenant communion".
		The study of Churches in Covenant Communion took the form of a survey instrument and packet of COCU materials sent to all dioceses, which were urged to study this text before responding.
	www.interfaitheducationinitiative.org /6947_475_ENG_Print.html (1007 words)

	GBGM Feature
		The COCU member-churches have chosen to live this commitment especially by focusing attention on the need to combat racism within and among the member-churches, in all churches and in society.
		For the churches in COCU particularly, our quest for visible unity is irrelevant -- in fact, fraudulent -- unless that unity embodies racial solidarity and produces a vital public witness for racial equality and fairness.
		A consultative conference should be explored to bring together this information and to take further action in light of these learnings as a good faith first step anticipating the inaugural liturgical celebration of Churches Uniting in Christ in 2002.
	gbgm-umc.org /global_news/full_article.cfm?articleid=762 (1421 words)

	EIR
		An extensive report from the Episcopal Church to the Eighteenth Plenary clarified the action of its 1994 General Convention, which declared that the Episcopal Church was "not ready" to enter into covenant communion and expressed a number of reservations about both the COCU Consensus and Churches in Covenant Communion.
		Churches Uniting in Christ will, with God's help, visibly express a unity in many things that are essential to the church's life (as outlined in section 4), even as the members of this community will seek to grow in unity among themselves and with other churches.
		Churches Uniting in Christ welcomes these continuing relationships, and the growth which they bring in the understanding of particular aspects of Christian faith and life, as an enrichment to the body as a whole.
	www.er-d.org /6947_543_ENG_Print.html (4112 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 44, No.2 - July 1987 - ARTICLE - Ecclesia of Freedom
		The question we face today is whether, insofar as the fl churches slowly enter the ecclesial mainstream, they will bring with them their distinctive qualities, helping to transform the whole, enabling their paradigm of what it means to be the church to become productive for all people.
		The fact is that the mainstream Protestant churches, while changing in their official policies and leadership, remain one of the strongest bastions of racial separation and prejudice, to say nothing of class and sexual division.
		A genuine union is not a matter of one separated group being merged into another, but of a wholly new church being born-an ecclesiogenesis-giving up what is merely parochial from the old churches but preserving all that is worth saving.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1987/v44-2-article1.htm (5167 words)

	UM Agency Leaders Join Church Union To "Back Door" Homosexuality Into Church Under Guise Of Racism Crusade
		For local churches, this means that they will be encouraged to do joint mission, cooperate in new church development, and recognize and observe common baptism and other worship celebrations.
		In combating racism, the Eighteenth Plenary Session of the Consultation on Church Union calls upon the nine member-churches to commit themselves to a unity that is liberating and reconciling, a unity offered in the Gospels, yet not fully expressed in the life and structures of these churches.
		The commitment by the COCU churches to overcome racism and live more intentionally the unity and catholicity of Christ’s Church is a promise and a prayer.
	www.ucmpage.org /news/cuic_homo_racism.html (2918 words)

	Outlook News
		While each of the member churches will retain its own identity and governing structure, the nine member churches will recognize their common faith, commit to common ministries and mission and pledge to regular sharing of the Lord's Supper as a witness to their communion in Christ.
		COCU proposals for church merger, structural unity and hierarchies of councils or officers have been rejected by member churches.
		The member churches of CUIC are the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church, the Episcopal Church, the International Council of Community Churches, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church.
	www.pres-outlook.com /HTML/cuic010902.html (625 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: The Brethren
		Historically the church was led by ministers, deacons and elders.
		Church council meetings are held for deciding matters of congregational importance (Bowman, 1995:73) and in 1866 District Meetings were approved as a means of screening and answering questions of a local nature (Bowman, 1995:122).
		Women's participation thoughout the history of the Church of the Brethren has been constrained.They were active in rearing and teaching the children and active in the daily lifeof the congregation as well (Brubaker, 31).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/brethren.html (3729 words)

	EIR
		The diaconal office outlined in The COCU Consensus combines the practices of the deacon in the traditional threefold ministry with those in the reformed and free church traditions—which give deacons elements of what were presbyteral and episcopal functions of oversight and governance.
		Although he graciously complied and although the Episcopal Church certainly does tolerate occasional anomalies, such public replacement of the creeds of catholic Christianity would never be accepted by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church as a basis for mutual recognition of ordained ministries.
		The latter two churches have learned much from each other in their recent and extensive and successful dialogue, creating a dynamic synthesis of protestant and catholic elements, and it would be challenging to explore further ways in which that framework could be applied now to all of us in CUIC.
	www.interfaitheducationinitiative.org /6947_547_ENG_Print.html (2169 words)

	The Consultation on Church Union (COCU), pronounced dead more than once over the past forty years, is indeed about to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Churches Uniting in Christ is a revision of a plan of "covenant communion" sent to the nine churches for official action by COCU’s Seventeenth Plenary in 1988.
		Several of the churches felt, however, that this added a layer of bureaucracy right at a time when church bureaucracy as a whole is suspect.
		From its beginning, COCU has envisioned a church that is "truly catholic, truly evangelical, and truly reformed" — a vision that demands (at least) the participation of all nine communions.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /interrelig/cuic-to2002.htm (1487 words)

	wfn.org \| Consultation on Church Union's dream for unity entering new phase
		While admitting that the nine churches of the Consultation on Church Union (COCU) "are not yet at the point where they can live in full communion with one another, they are surely beyond the stage of occasional cooperation," said the Rev. Michael Kinnamon, general secretary of COCU, in a recent Christian Century article.
		The nine denominations are the African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church, International Council of Community Churches, Presbyterian Church (USA), United Church of Christ, and United Methodist Church.
		The Consultation on Church Union (COCU) was founded in 1962 and produced a Plan for Union in 1970 that was not accepted because of major differences over how participants ordered their ministries.
	www.wfn.org /2001/04/msg00117.html (648 words)

	CRF9 Report - 1 records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Consultation on Church Union Relocated to Lowell, MA, 2000
		A non-profit ecumenical organization which has as its purpose the exploration and establishment of a uniting church that is truly catholic, truly evangelical and truly reformed.
		Members of the Consultation include nine communions: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Episcopal Church, International Council of Community Churches, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church (USA), and United Church of Christ.
	www.princeton.lib.nj.us /crf/362.htm (80 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Area groups to unite in prayer event 5/16/97
		She has been president since 1988 of the Consultation on Church Union, a Princeton University-based group that promotes unity among Christian denominations.
		Dr. Robinson represents the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the church union, which was founded in 1962.
		COCU churches are nearing a covenant agreement, called Church of Christ Uniting, which upholds a common baptism, communion service, mutual acceptance of ministers and an oversight council.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/051797/fea_interfaith.html (412 words)

	EIR
		The Episcopal Church through our General Convention has agreed to participate in the inauguration of a new relationship between the churches long associated with the Consultation on Church Union (COCU) which, while short of full communion, is another step along the road.
		We, the member churches of the Consultation on Church Union, gathered in St. Louis, January 20-24, 1999, for the Consultation's Eighteenth Plenary, confess that we have not always been certain of the road toward visible unity in Christ, or patient with the pace of our journey.
		The Episcopal Church has been asked to make a report of the official action taken by our communion in response to Churches in Covenant Communion which was approved by the COCU plenary of 1988.
	www.er-d.org /6947_9328_ENG_Print.html (389 words)

	Nine NCC Member Churches Commit to a Closer Relationship with Each Other
		The member churches, under the leadership of their General Secretary Michael Kinnamon – professor at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis – will also explore authorizing their ministers to serve and lead worship, when invited, in each of the communions.
		The Churches Uniting in Christ include the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, whose Bishop, Dr. Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr., is the National Council of Churches' President Elect (he will serve as NCC President in 2004-2005).
		Also, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Episcopal Church, International Council of Community Churches, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), United Church of Christ and United Methodist Church.
	www.ncccusa.org /news/02news6.html (342 words)

	The Ecumenical Movement - RELST151 - Fears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in that it was constituted by the hierarchy from all parts of the world, but observers from other Churches were invited to attend, giving it also a character to some degree ecumenical in the interconfessional sense, though only Catholics were full participants.
		In 1960 Eugene Carson Blake, then stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church and later general secretary of the WCC, proposed a merger of certain of the main Churches of U.S. Protestantism; this proposal led to Consultation on Church Union (COCU) which, if successful, would mean an historic step toward Christian unity.
		They have taught that the need of the Church is not merely for organizational unity but for an inward renewal of the life of all Churches that would make them more effective in their service of Christ.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/fears/relst151/ecumenical.html (1591 words)

	wfn.org \| General Assembly Backgrounder: The Consultation on Church Union
		The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be the first of the COCU churches to vote on the proposal, which came out of the 18th COCU plenary in January.
		The other COCU member churches are the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church, the International Council of Community Churches, the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church.
		The Episcopal Church is the only one of the nine COCU bodies that claims an episcopate in "historic succession" - an unbroken line of bishops stretching back to the early church.
	www.wfn.org /1999/08/msg00180.html (346 words)

	United Methodist Church Structure \| General Conference 2000 - The United Methodist Church
		Each local church is governed by a charge conference with an administrative board as the year-round supervisory agency.
		Each church in the United States and Puerto Rico is in one of 522 districts, which are administrative and program groupings of 40 to 80 churches.
		The United Methodist Church is a member of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America and of the World Council of Churches.
	www.gc2000.org /about/structure.htm (604 words)

	The Accessible Church
		The Boston Archdiocese, for example, has issued in its Synodal statement of 1988 a call to all members of the Church to ensure that all those with physical and psychological disabilities feel themselves part of the Church and that all structural and attitudinal barriers to full participation be eliminated as far as possible.
		The Providence Diocese also has issued a Pastoral Letter to all members of the Church to ensure that all those with physical and mental disabilities feel themselves part of the Church and that all structural and attitudinal barriers to full participation be eliminated as far as possible.
		In our churches, however, people with disabilities are still largely absent, excluded from full participation because of inaccessible buildings and programs, left out of the communication loop, and too often made to feel like inconvenient objects of pity.
	www.masscouncilofchurches.org /docs/accessibility.htm (4623 words)

	PCA Historical Center Collection: Continuing Presbyterian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When the presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church in the United States voted down union with the more liberal Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1954, those who were determined to have union at any cost began working to effect union by varied, and sometimes unconstitutional, means.
		Mostly by a faulty interpretation of the seventeenth chapter of John, young ministers were taught organic union of church organizations as a great Christian ideal and changing of the social and political order as the mission of the church.
		The radical ecumenists by 1960 had taken control of most of the church and were continuing a steady well-planned drive towards a "watered down" theology and the ultimate in church union as expressed in the Consultation on Church Union (a kind of American super-church).
	www.pcanet.org /history/findingaids/continuing.html (686 words)

	Yale Bulletin & Calendar - News Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Franklin is a distinguished lay leader in the Episcopal Church and was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to serve as a consultant to the 1998 Lambeth Conference.
		In addition, Dean Franklin is a governor of the Anglican Center in Rome; chair of the board of Friends of Saint Benedict; a member of Anglican/Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States; and a member of the Episcopal representation to the Consultation on Church Union Theology Committee.
		His book "Nineteenth Century Churches: The History of a New Catholicism in Wurttemberg, England and France" was a finalist for the 1989 Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society of Church History.
	www.yale.edu /opa/ybc/v26.n14.news.03.html (313 words)

	CUMC FAQ United Methodist Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The United Methodist Church is ecumenically minded; we are part of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., the World Council of Churches, the World Methodist Council (representing 33 million Methodist Christians), the Commission on Pan Methodist Cooperation and the Consultation on Church Union.
		Although the two churches that united to form our denomination had their own symbols, unionists agreed the formation of a new church called for a fresh insignia.
		The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968, with the union of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church.
	www.catumc.org /faq/umc.html (1224 words)

	Calendar Item Text: 780-NonDis-MR
		Whereas, The COCU Consensus: In Quest of a Church of Christ Uniting was given overwhelming support by the 1988 General Conference, as an expression of the Apostolic Faith, and "a sufficient theological basis for the covenanting acts to be proposed by the Consultation..." (1992 Book of Resolutions, p.
		Be it further resolved, that The United Methodist Church declares its willingness to enter into a relationship of covenant communion with the member churches of the Consultation on Church Union and other churches which similarly approve this agreement and The COCU Consensus which is its theological basis, sealed by the proposed inaugural liturgies;
		Be it further resolved, that the 1996 General Conference of The United Methodist Church send greetings of grace and peace in Christ to the other member churches of the Consultation, offering prayers that we may all be one so that the world might believe.
	www.gcah.org /GC96/PETS/CAL/TEXT/c0780.html (872 words)

	CUIC and Racism
		It is an evil practice among individuals, churches and nations.
		Racism is finally about power - the abuses of power by a dominant group intent upon preserving its economic, social, political, or ecclesiastical privileges and the resulting deprivations of opportunity imposed on a subordinate group.
		Editor's note to journalists: For more information or to arrange an interview with Dr. Michael Kinnamon, former general secretary of the Consultation on Church Union, please contact Lois Ford Long, director of media relations at Eden Theological Seminary at 314.918.2568 (office), 314.494.7442 (mobile) or cuic@ucc.org.
	www.cuicinfo.org /racism/cuicandracism.html (1489 words)

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