CATHOLIC-LUTHERAN PRESS CONFERENCE ON DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION

VATICAN CITY, MAY 28, 1999 (VIS) - A press conference will be held at the Ecumenical Center in Geneva, Switzerland on June 11, "to announce the positive conclusion of the process of examination undertaken by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation relative to the Joint Declaration of the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation on the Doctrine of Justification."

The communique announcing this conference, published yesterday afternoon, stated that it will be presided over by Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and Rev. Ismael Noko, secretary general of the Lutheran World Federation.

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