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By CINDY WOODEN News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) The Catholic-Lutheran agreement on justification is "a milestone along the

not easy road of the re-establishment of full unity among Christians," Pope

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John Paul II said. As representatives of the Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity were signing the agreement Oct. 3 1 in Augsburg, Germany, the pope used his midday Angelus address at the Vatican to highlight the importance of the document. "The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification." the pope said, deals w ith "one of the principal arguments which set Catholics and Lutherans against one another." As one of the documents signed in

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key dispute during the Protestant Reformation was whether believers were justified and saved through grace alone or whether salvation required a combination of grace and good works.

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CNS PHOTO FROM KNA Catholic and Lutheran leaders pray together at the Lutheran Church of St. Anne in Augsburg, Germany, Oct. 31. The prayer service was held prior to the signing of "The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification."

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"I want to thank the Lord for this intermediate step along a path which is difficult, but so rich in joy, unity

and communion among Christians," the pope said. Pope John Paul said the signing, in addition to helping Catholics and Lutherans give a better witness to the love and unity found in Christ, also is cation of historic memories."

Pope John Paul said the agreement "constitutes a sure basis for the

The signing ceremony in Germany began with a penitential ser-

continuation of ecumenical theological research and for facing the diffi-

vice in Augsburg's Catholic cathedral. Catholics and Lutherans asked

"Our task is not only to continue the building, but unfortunately we have also the duty of seeking to repair the damage that has been done to that building by the storms, conflicts and,

culties

which remain with a better in resolving them in the

founded hope

for forgiveness for not always

having chosen the way of unity within their churches and within their lives.

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cession to the Lutheran Church of St. Anne for an ecumenical prayer service. At the end of the ser-

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the joint declaration

was signed by Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, presi-

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Lutheran Bishop Christian Krause of Brunswick, president of the Lutheran World Federation; and by other Catholic and Lutheran participants. In his homily during the service, Cardinal Cassidy said Christians build the church of Christ.

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God and moves forward "in a significant way the work of restoration of unity among the followers of Christ." The task of continuing the dialogue

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Catholic Cardinal Edward Cassidy and German Lutheran Bishop Christian Krause shake hands at the signing of "The Joint

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Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" in Augsburg, Germany, Oct. 31. Cardinal Cassidy, representing the Vatican, and Bishop Krause, president of the Lutheran World Federation, signed the document marking the resolution of a doctrinal dispute that sparked the Reformation.

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