Extract from Commons Delegated Legislation Committee consideration of the Ecumenical Relations Measure Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure Church Property Measure Church of England Pensions Measure - Dec 11
Wednesday, 12 December 2018 08:24
The Second Church Estates Commissioner (Dame Caroline Spelman):...I
shall outline the Measures. The first is an ecumenical relations
Measure. The main point of it is to enable the Church of England to
participate in ecumenical activity with other Christian Churches.
Colleagues may wonder why that does not already happen. In fact, it
does happen. All this Measure does is to improve on the Church of
England (Ecumenical Relations) Measure 1988. That enables the
Church of England formally to...Request free trial
The Second Church Estates Commissioner (Dame Caroline
Spelman):...I shall outline the Measures. The first is an
ecumenical relations Measure. The main point of it is to enable the
Church of England to participate in ecumenical activity with other
Christian Churches. Colleagues may wonder why that does not already
happen. In fact, it does happen. All this Measure does is to
improve on the Church of England (Ecumenical Relations) Measure
1988. That enables the Church of England formally to participate in
ecumenical activity with other Christian Churches, but there remain
some Churches that are not covered by the 1988 legislation, so the
new Measure will broaden the scope of that provision to include a
wider range of Christian Churches, whose members will then be able
to participate in Church of England services—for example, by
reading lessons or leading prayers and, in the case of
the Salvation Army, by preaching...
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