The leaders of the world’s Catholics and Lutherans have signed a joint declaration at an ecumenical prayer service commemorating the greatest schism in western Christianity, stating that what unites the two traditions is greater than that which divides them.
Pope Francis, who travelled to Lund in Sweden for two days of joint events, told worshippers at the city’s cathedral that Catholics and Lutherans had a “new opportunity to accept a common path”.
The service heralded 12 months of events leading up to the 500th anniversary next year of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany: an act that triggered the religious, political, social and cultural revolution across Europe known as the Reformation.
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