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	<description>Website for Bridgefolk, a movement of sacramentally-minded Mennonites and peace-minded Roman Catholics who come together to celebrate each other&#039;s traditions, explore each other&#039;s practices, and honor each other&#039;s contribution to the mission of Christ&#039;s Church.</description>
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		<title>Pope Benedict: Force in the name of Christian faith a great shame and an abuse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assisi day of prayer for peace &#8211; today and 25 years ago VATICAN CITY, 27 OCT 2011 (VIS) &#8211; Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the historic meeting for peace in the Italian town of Assisi, called by Blessed John Paul II. For the occasion, Benedict XVI has made a pilgrimage to the city of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic theologians in the U.S. speak out against the death penalty</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty There were two state-sanctioned executions in the United States on September 21, 2011. In Georgia, Troy Anthony Davis, an African American man, was put to death for the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. In Texas, Lawrence Brewer, a white supremacist, was executed for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mennonite nuns?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This might be old news for a few Mennonites involved in Bridgefolk, but since they&#8217;ve never spoken up, it will be new news to others: Anabaptist and Mennonite churches have long had deaconesses.  But only a few years ago, well into the 20th century, the practice took a form that looks very much like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict XVI calls for simple lifestyles, nonviolence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope: God&#8217;s Love Is Cure for Ills of Society Offers Reflection on &#8220;Yoke&#8221; of Christ VATICAN CITY, JULY 3, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The answer to the many situations of injustice, poverty and suffering around the world lies in the love of God, says Benedict XVI. The Pope said this today in a reflection on the &#8220;yoke&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message of International Ecumenical Peace Convocation:&#8220;Churches can teach nonviolence, if we dare&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final message of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation, held in Jamaica in May, closes by highlighting the witness of historic peace churches, and insisting that all churches can teach peace to the powerful: History, especially in the witness of the historic peace churches, reminds us of the fact that violence is contrary to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praying the Bridgefolk prayer &#8211; 10 years and counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago this week, a small group of original Bridgefolk participants and leaders met together to talk, pray and discern.  How should we follow through on our initial meeting in Pennsylvania in 1999?  What kind of community are we becoming?  How will participants know if they are “members?”  Should we have a common discipline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vatican&#8217;s ecumenical council proposes renewed dialogue with Mennonites</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Information Service publication of the Vatican&#8217;s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) includes news that the PCPCU has sent a letter to the Mennonite World Council &#8220;proposing a round of conversations.&#8221;  The council suggests that this new round of dialogue begin in late 2010 or early 2011, and that discussions center on &#8220;the theology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joint statement by Mennonites and Catholics to WCC Decade to Overcome Violence now available</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on their 1998-2003 dialogue and ground-breaking document, Called Together to Be Peacemakers Mennonite and Catholic leaders met together for a brief conference October 23-25, 2007 in order to offer joint suggestions for the World Council of Churches’ Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV). The DOV will culminate in an International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto dialogue group releases report</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2007/05/29/toronto-dialogue-group-releases-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 00:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New on our website is the report of a dialogue group at the Toronto School of Theology. Ten graduate students in theology, half of whom are Roman Catholic and half Mennonite, met together regularly for two years to analyze and discuss Called Together to be Peacemakers, the final report from the international dialogue between Mennonites [...]]]></description>
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