Vatican signals possible dialogue with new Anglican Communion

The Vatican has signaled it may be open to ecumenical dialogue with the new, conservative breakaway Global Anglican Communion, a move that would upend decades of Catholic-Anglican relations centered on the See of Canterbury, the English church’s historic “first among equals.”

In a significant development first reported by the German Catholic outlet Katholisch , a top Vatican official publicly questioned who the Catholic Church’s official dialogue partner will be following the Anglican Communion’s recent historic split.

Cardinal Kurt Koch , a Swiss cleric who serves as head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, made the remarks at a symposium held in his honor in Vallendar, Germany.

Cardinal Kurt Koch

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