Vatican Representative Tones Down 'One True Church' Statement | Christianpost.com

Vatican Representative Tones Down 'One True Church' Statement | Christianpost.com: "Vatican Representative Tones Down 'One True Church' Statement By Maria Mackay Christian Post Correspondent Thu, Sep. 06 2007 08:45 AM ET [-]Text[+] E-mail Print RSS More on Topic AddThis Button The head of the Vatican's office for Christian unity has responded to concerns among Europe’s Protestant church leaders over the Vatican’s recent statement asserting that the Catholic Church is the only true church of Jesus Christ. Related * Major Church Assembly Expected to Propel Christian Comeback in Europe The 16-page document, ratified by Pope Benedict XVI in July, stated that the Roman Catholic Church is “the one true Church of Christ.” It also claimed that “communities emerging from the Reformation” – the Protestant and Anglican Churches – are “not Churches in the proper sense of the word.” In an attempt to temper the assertion, Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, told reporters at the Third European Ecumenical Assembly currently taking place in Sibiu, Romania, that by claiming other communities “were not churches in the proper sense, we did not mean that these ot"