NEW: Pope Leo XIV commenting to Sarah Mullally this morning on Catholic-Anglican ecumenical dialogue—
“While much progress has been made on some historically divisive issues, new problems have arisen in recent decades, rendering the pathway to full communion more difficult to discern.
I know that the Anglican Communion is also facing many of these same questions at this time.
Nevertheless, we must not allow these continuing challenges to prevent us from using every possible opportunity to proclaim Christ to the world together.
As my beloved predecessor, Pope Francis, said to the Primates of the Anglican Communion in 2024, “it would be a scandal if, due to our divisions, we did not fulfil our common vocation to make Christ known” (Address to Primates of the Anglican Communion, 2 May 2024).
For my part, I add that it would also be a scandal if we did not continue to work towards overcoming our differences, no matter how intractable they may appear.”
Sarah Mullally, Anglican archbishop of Canterbury
@ArchbishopSarah, will meet Pope Leo XIV on Monday morning.
She will then join Leo for midday prayer in the Chapel of Urban VIII in the Apostolic Palace.
Later she will lead Anglican Choral Evensong at the Catholic church of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola & commission the new director of the Anglican Centre in Rome for his post.
Cardinal Tagle will give the homily during the Anglican Evensong.