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It was a minor landmark in church history. Last week the Roman Catholic Church issued a new and explicit clarification of the conditions under which Catholics may be permitted to discuss religion and even pray with their Protestant brethren.
3) Roman Catholics may attend Protestant councils of a nonreligious nature without their bishop's permission.
4) Catholics may join with Protestants in prayer, providing the prayers said are officially approved by the Catholic Church. In the case of the Lord's Prayer, the Roman Catholic version must be used: i.e., "Our Father who art in heaven . . ." instead of the less personalized "Our Father which...
Wider & Deeper. At least one Protestant leader welcomed the Vatican directive as a step-though not a very big one -in the right direction. Said the World Council of Churches' General Secretary Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft in Geneva: "The very fact that such a document is...
*The pronoun is not likely to embarrass many U.S. gatherings. The American Book of Common Prayer and most Protestant denominations use the "who" as does the American Revised Standard version. More likely source of confusion: the Catholic version ends after "deliver us from evil."