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Videos from Bridgefolk 2025 now available

Bridgefolk formalizes relationship with Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Sarah K. Johnson shares research on grassroots ecumenism

“The courage to love,” the miracle of ecumenical reconciliation

Fresh Catholic / Anabaptist dialogue emerges in Pennsylvania

Ecumenical or exceptional?: Anabaptist World editor reflects on Pope Francis’s legacy

Mennonite World Conference mourns the loss of Pope Francis

Bridgefolk shares its Mennonite-Catholic rite of footwashing

What does the 500th anniversary of the start of the Anabaptist movement mean for the unity of the church?

Registration for Bridgefolk 2025 now open!

Growing Together in Faith under One Roof: Aberdeen Mennonite and St. Kateri Indigenous Catholic

Bridgefolk 2025 to be held in Winnipeg in July

Bridgefolk webinars page updated to include 27 January event

Board member feature: Matt Rissler

Holy Spirit works through Catholic synod, says Mennonite representative

Virtual event to remember Zurich & Nicaea, January 27

Mennonite representative at synod speaks at Vatican press conference

Catholic Institute for Nonviolence launched in Rome

French Mennonite to participate in Vatican synod

Virtual event on war, technology & acceleration, October 8

Board member feature: Michelle Sherman

The time is now, the chosen are us: a story of land justice

July 4 in the Catholic liturgy — an explainer

Online registration now open!

Mennonites remember Catholic scholar Gerhard Lohfink

Board profile: Ann Marie Biermaier OSB & Samantha Lioi, co-chairs

Working together to welcome the stranger

22 years in Bridgefolk:
John Klassen OSB reflects

Benedictine life and care for the environment

Mennonite ecumenical leader Larry Miller to address prospects for Christian reconciliation

Abbot John Klassen retires;
Sr. Ann Marie Biermaier new Bridgefolk co-chair

Board profile: Gilbert Detillieux

Rooted and Grounded speakers focus on resistance and resilience in the face of climate doom

Pope Francis releases 2nd apostolic exhortation on the climate crisis

Sister Karen Rose installed as prioress of St. Benedict’s Monastery

John D. Roth calls for “less triumph, more confession” when Anabaptists celebrate anniversary in 2025

Vatican formally repudiates “Doctrine of Discovery”

Bridgefolk 2023 conference in collaboration with Mennonite seminary

The late Pope Benedict XVI on the search for reconciliation by Anabaptists and Catholics

Catholic Nonviolence Initiative lecture series on gospel nonviolence now available

Videos from Bridgefolk 2022 now available online

Mennonite-Catholic Theological Colloquia now available in one volume

Pfeil to speak on intercessory prayer in Mennonite and Catholic traditions

Why we “proceed through friendship”

Standing at a crossroads, Bridgefolk asks how to repair harm to native peoples

Bridgefolk to celebrate 20th year with 2022 conference “Standing at the Crossroads”

News and reflections:
Pope Francis’s apology for church abuses to indigenous peoples of Canada

New book in Bridgefolk series released

Bridgefolk mourns death of
Fr. Drew Christiansen, SJ

Book review:
The Hunger Inside by Bradley Roth

Joetta Handrich Schlabach appointed
Bridgefolk director

Mennonites and Catholics work together to help family in Ontario

Embodying oneness through the enfleshment of the Eucharist

National Catholic Reporter reviews Mennonite book on antiracist spirituality

Video from 2021 conference now available

Schlabach to share lessons from Bridgefolk in Doris H. Murphy Memorial lecture, Oct. 4th

Bridgefolk participants explain importance of pre-Reformation sources in new Mennonite hymnbook

Hildegard of Bingen: A Model of Mennonite-Catholic Bridging

Week of Christian Unity 2021: A Report from the Vatican

First hymn in new Mennonite hymnal will again be by a Catholic

Trilateral report on baptism by Lutherans, Catholics, Mennonites released

“Catholics and Anabaptists Working Together for Peace” by Ross Ahlfeld

Postponed: 2020 Bridgefolk summer conference

Abbot John’s Christian Unity Homily

Coordinator Position

Mennonite Catholic Theological Colloquium to ask: Does Peacebuilding Need Peace Theology?

Conference 2019 Media Release

Revised Schedule for Bridgefolk Gathering 2019

“Catholic-Mennonite Gathering Planned for Winnipeg”

+S. Theresa Schumacher OSB Died, 29 May 2019

Education for Peace in a Multi-Religious World: A Christian Perspective

2019 Annual Gathering

2019 Spiritual Pilgrimage

+ Paul J. Nelson, 1951-2018

2018 Conference Report

Fr. William Skudlarek OSB Named Interim Coordinator

2018 Bridgefolk Conference

2017 Post-Conference News Release

2017 Schedule

2017 Bridgefolk Conference, Seattle.

Pope calls for nonviolence in 2017 World Day of Peace message: U.S. religious leaders respond

Mennonite-Catholic relations — a story of life on the bridge

Mercy in the borderlands

15th annual Bridgefolk conference highlights common practices of mercy

Reconciliation recounted at regional ELCA gathering

Mennonite Catholic Theological Colloquium to discuss intercessorary prayer, October 1 at Notre Dame

Bridgefolk co-founder joins Vatican conference rejecting just war

Vatican-hosted conference reassesses just-war theory

Bridgefolk co-founder Gerald Schlabach to participate in Vatican conference on nonviolence and just peace

Major new resource documents Mennonite ecumenical dialogue

Bridgefolk announces 2016 conference

“If Any Become Followers” – Living the Disarmed Life

Saint Marcellus Day Celebration – October 29th, 2015

Remembering Ivan J. Kauffman, Bridgefolk co-founder

The pope’s arrival and the only Mennonite in the room

I Will Make with Them a Covenant of Peace

Bridgefolk 2015 explores miracle of ecumenical healing

“Who Are You Having Supper With?”

A papal encyclical, a Mennonite resolution, and the relevance of Anablacktivism

Take No Bread for the Journey

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