Pope, WCC leader reaffirm unity quest: Both to ignore strains caused by Dominus Iesus
Putting behind them a controversial document, Pope Benedict XVI met with leaders of the World Council of Churches June 16 and reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s “irreversible” commitment to the search for Christian unity.
Both the pope and Samuel Kobia, secretary general of the WCC, indicated that they will ignore the strains caused by Dominus Iesus (Lord Jesus), which asserted that only Catholics are assured of salvation. The document was issued in 2000 by Benedict, who was then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican’s top authority on church doctrine.