ecumen@adphila.org
The Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs serves as a resource for the Archdiocese, its parishes and institutions, in ecumenical and interreligious affairs.
This Office reflects and expresses “that ecumenism, the movement promoting Christian unity is not just some sort of ‘appendix’ which is added to the Church’s traditional activity. Rather, ecumenism is an organic part of her life and work, and consequently must pervade all that she is and does.” (Ut Unum Sint, 20)
This Office heeds the words of Vatican II. “The Church, therefore, urges its sons and daughters to enter with prudence and charity into discussion and collaboration with members of other religions. Let Christians, while witnessing to their faith and way of life, acknowledge, preserve and encourage the spiritual and moral truths found among non-Christians, together with their social life and culture.” (Nostra Aetate, 2)
Ecumenical and Interreligious Activities
- Religious Leaders Council of Greater Philadelphia – member of the Administrative Group and Planning Committee
- Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia – Board of Directors
- Bearing Witness – Anti Defamation League and the Archdiocese partner for Holocaust education for Catholic school teachers
- Youth Symposium on the Holocaust – Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and the Archdiocese partner for Holocaust education for high school teachers and students
- American Jewish Committee – “Passover Seder” partnership between Kellman Brown Academy in Cherry Hill and St. Mary’s Interparochial School in Old City Philadelphia
- Philadelphia School District
- New CORE – interfaith, interracialconversation on Race and Ethnicity dedicated to more honest, healing conversations among races. New CORE is on facebook.com
- Philadelphia Liturgical Institute
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