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COLLEGEVILLE, MN - Ivan Kauffman, an independent writer who was born and educated in the Mennonite community and has been a Catholic since 1968, will summarize an ongoing dialogue between Mennonites and Catholics, October 14, as part of Saint John's Abbey's Second Sunday series. The 7 p.m. presentation in the Chapter House (adjacent to the Abbey Church) is free and open to the public.
Kauffman will describe the monastic influences on the origin and present life of Mennonites (one of the traditional "peace churches") and offer some suggestions for future steps in the Mennonite-Catholic ecumenical conversation that has emerged in the past 10 years.
The background for the address is the series of annual meetings of Mennonites and Catholics known as Bridgefolk, a movement that seeks to make Anabaptist-Mennonite practices of discipleship, peaceableness and lay participation more accessible to Roman Catholics, and to bring the spiritual, liturgical and sacramental practices of the Catholic tradition to Anabaptists.
Kauffman served as an adviser to Bishop Joseph Martino, the Catholic co-chair of the Vatican-level International Mennonite Catholic Ecumenical Dialogue and was a founder of Bridgefolk.
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