A report in the Italian daily Avvenire, Ecumenismo,da 100 anni una “missione” viva by Fabrizio Mastrofini p.17, states Cardinal Walter Kaspar, President of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity was one of the speakers on the last day of the conference organised by the Urbaniana University, Faculty of Missiology.It was a meeting of Protestants and Catholics to jointly celebrate the centenary of the Edinburgh conference in 1910 when mainland Protestant communities focused on Christian Mission.
According to Ermano Genre,a Valdese community teacher, the reports says, the purpose of this ecumenical meeting at the Urbaniana was not to reach a theological agreement but to elaborate the road in community and fraternity for proclaiming the Gospel.
It may be mentioned that according to the Gospel as proclaimed by the Catholic Church , Ermano Genre needs to convert .Since the ordinary way to avoid Hell is Catholic Faith with the baptism of water. Lumen Gentium 14 states:
14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism(124) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved…-Lumen Gentium 14,Vatican Council II. Emphasis added)
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