This week World Methodist Council leaders met with Pope Francis, marking the opening of a new Methodist ecumenical office in Rome and over 50 years of Methodist-Catholic dialogue, soon to include a joint declaration titled “The Call to Holiness: From Glory to Glory.”
Eighty Methodist denominations belong to the World Methodist Council, which is fraternal but has no juridical authority over about 80 million Methodists globally. United Methodism is the largest denomination, with 13 million globally, of whom 7 million are in the USA. Methodist-Catholic exchanges inevitably include references to John Wesley’s “Letter to a Roman Catholic,” which Pope Francis cited in his remarks to the delegation. Here’s a quote from the Pope:
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