Curia Archbishop Cites Lutheran Confessio Augustana as “Common Basis” for Today

An ecumenical commemoration is scheduled for 2030 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Diet of Augsburg and the Confessio Augustana.
This was announced by Curia Archbishop Flavio Pace, Secretary of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity, speaking to VaticanNews.va on January 22.
Monsignor Pace described the Augsburg Confession correctly as an attempt to “find common ground, a common profession of faith, among the countries we now call the Reformation countries”. However, he added that it should be commemorated to “rediscover a common basis” for today.
He even expressed the idea that the path toward unity might one day mean “sitting at the one table of Christ.”
Confessio Augustana Denies Mass as Sacrifice
The Confessio Augustana is a text that denies the sacrificial nature of the Mass.
It was written by the Lutheran theologian Philip Melanchthon to unify the Reformation territories, a movement which, under religious pretexts, constituted a political revolt against the …More