Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF)

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"Rome,Italy,June.12,2007(CINS/CNS) -- Several Protestant organizations reacted with dismay to the Vatican's recent document on the identity of the church, but the Vatican's chief ecumenist, an Orthodox leader and a Swiss bishop said that, by clarifying its position, the Vatican actually is helping ecumenical dialogue."

The 'document' was issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Some of the assertions made:

It reaffirmed Catholic teaching that the Catholic Church is the one, true church of Christ.

Orthodox Churches, since they have preserved apostolic succession, may be described as a 'sister church', in spite of the fact that their condition is lacking because they are not in union with the pope.

Christian communities born out of the Protestant Reformation cannot be called 'church' as defined by Catholic theology.

http://www.vaticans.org/index.php?/archives/339-Protestant-groups-dismayed-at-new-document-on-identity-of-Church.html

ORTHODOX CHURCH comments

NOTEt: It maybe that some supposedly sworn to allegiance of the Pope have taken the statement of not calling some groups churches a bit further than the document probably intended.

"What we have to do, then, in order to be more radical in recognizing the value of each religion or culture, is to dismantle what we have erroroneously called the struggle for cultural or religious identities. This is not at all easy but we should no longer claim: I am Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical, Orthodox, Jew, or Muslim.  Our aim should be to allow ourselves to be inspired by the spirituality of others, their way of believing, their idea of God, their practices.

Alfredo Ferro SJ, CPAL, Brazil, original spanish, translated by Joseph Owens SJ

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:a_1RZMPrdk0J:www.sjweb.info/documents/sjs/pjnewarticles/104-2-03ENG.pdf+site:http://www.sjweb.info+orthodox&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShp4gx8duMaxeihlms6fUs9tiEdMsgBS62j8RfuumGv5f3gXIKnY_ANsVf76uZfa0FDDLwLEt-IUZkYyzQyx63IJlwMyiwyDwl6ifJigSJ5CT4dh7ktWXHuvtSt1IGK9SymQ8tl&sig=AHIEtbTSWW0RmxZGAg2E0c7Qtrkh23nsKw

See Editorial page here July 2012 =Pope appoints doctrinal watchdog with links to 'Marxist' Catholics= Gerhard Ludwig Müller, who has defended liberation theologists and written a book on the poor, will lead key department

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/03/pope-appoints-watchdog-marxist-links

NOTE: The picture looks like he could be George Clooney's dad...coincidence or no? kidding