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		<title>Press release: 2010 Bridgefolk conference explores footwashing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collegeville, MN (Bridgefolk) – For the ninth consecutive year a voluntary group of North American Mennonites and Catholics will meet for three days this summer for conversations about the faith which unites them—and the issues which divide them.  The Benedictine community at St. John&#8217;s Abbey in Collegeville MN will host the gathering, as it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Ecumenical Institute in Saskatoon, SK</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another opportunity for ecumenical conversation in which Mennonites and Catholics have both played a part, in western Canada.
Summer Ecumenical Institute 2009: Telling our story, shaping our future: Christian unity and reconciliation in Canada
June 2-5, 2009 in Saskatoon, SK
The Summer Ecumenical Institute will function as a stock-taking and a vision-building exercise for the grassroots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duke Summer Reconciliation Institute</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School has extended a special invitation to Bridgefolk to participate in a week-long training workshop May 31 &#8211; June 5.  Three Bridgefolk leaders took part in a conference at the center last year and found it be a meaningful opportunity to explore the challenge of reconciliation at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saints and Heroes in the Faith Sustain, Don&#8217;t Divide</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2008/07/27/saints-and-heroes-in-the-faith-sustain-dont-divide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News release on 2008 Bridgefolk conference
by Kent Yoder
Collegeville, Minnesota (Bridgefolk) &#8212; On July 24-27, forty-five Mennonites and Catholics gathered at Saint John&#8217;s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota for the seventh annual Bridgefolk conference. Under the theme &#8220;Holiness the Road: Saints and the Spirituality that Sustains,&#8221; participants explored common and divergent threads between Catholic and Mennonite traditions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mennonites and Catholics Share Friendship Through &#8216;Bridgefolk&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2005/07/24/mennonites-and-catholics-share-friendship-through-bridgefolk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Edwards
HARRISONBURG, Va. &#8211; Andrea Bartoli, U.S. leader of the Catholic Santa Egidio lay fellowship, shared the story of Dirk Willems, the Dutch Mennonite known for saving a drowning pursuer who then killed him. Through his compassionate act, Bartoli said, that martyr gave &#8220;a gift of the Spirit that I can experience 500 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering the Cloud of Witnesses: 2nd Ecumenical Conference on 16th-century Martyrdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE
Mennonite World Conference
August 12, 2004
COLLEGEVILLE, Minnesota — Mennonite and Catholic historians and theologians continued the study of 16th-century religious martyrdom that began last year. Discussions at Saint John&#8217;s Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Minnesota, July 26-28, included plans to form an ecumenical institute for on-going scholarly research on this topic.
The conference was entitled, &#8220;Sixteenth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mennonites and Catholics Gather at Bridgefolk Conference to Discern Spiritual Practices for Violent Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Melanie Zuercher
Collegeville, Minn.(BRIDGEFOLK)-History may show that Mennonites and Catholics have had little to say to each other for the past 500 years. But not all members of these two groups see it that way today.
When Mennonites and Catholics sit down together, the Catholics bring a long and rich tradition of liturgy and strong institutions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anabaptist Martyrs Studied at Joint Mennonite-Catholic Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marilyn Stahl
Collegeville, Minn.- Mennonite and Catholic scholars gathered to begin a joint historical study of the sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyrs in mid-July at St. John&#8217;s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn.  Many of the martyrs were condemned to death by Catholic civil and church authorities.
Abbot John Klassen of St. John&#8217;s began his welcoming remarks by citing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic and Mennonite scholars announce joint project to study Anabaptist martyrs, 2003</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2003/04/15/catholic-and-mennonite-scholars-announce-joint-project-to-study-anabaptist-martyrs-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of prominent Mennonite and Catholic scholars will gather this summer at St. Johns Abbey to begin a joint historical study of the sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyrs, many of them condemned to death by the Inquisition.
It will be the first time Catholics have publicly confronted these incidents, and the first time that Mennonites have engaged [...]]]></description>
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