“In this age when so many forms of Christianity exist, and so often the mode of Christianity one chooses tends to be based on habit or preference, what are we to make of Christ’s prayer in John 17 that all His followers be one?
More than 500 years removed from the Protestant Reformation, many of the original issues at stake have been resolved, while new ones have arisen with the onset of modernity. Even Vatican II recognized that the way Catholics talk about our non-Catholic brothers and sisters needed to change, given that so many Christians outside the Catholic Church share our belief in the Trinity, the saving death and resurrection of Jesus, the crucial nature of Baptism, and more.
But with all of those things in common, is it still necessary for Catholics to invite their non-Catholic brothers and sisters home to full communion with the Catholic Church? Marcus and JonMarc Grodi, who have been working with those coming into the Catholic Church for the past two and a half decades, look at what the Catechism says about these issues in a number of places, and what those passages mean for all Christians of goodwill who want to seek Jesus.
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