USCCB ecumenical committee recommends further study of Catholic-Evangelical document

The committee encouraged that the document "be used in prayer and study."

The ecumenical affairs committee of the U.S. bishops’ conference has recommended that seminaries, dioceses, and individuals take up for study a document emphasizing the shared baptismal identity of Catholics and Evangelicals.

“We Catholics and Evangelicals recognize one another as brothers and sisters in Christ who have received the same baptism and call…