CARDINAL CASSIDY TO SPEAK ON JUSTIFICATION DECLARATION

VATICAN CITY, SEP 16, 1999 (VIS) - Tomorrow, Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, will deliver a lecture on the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" at a conference at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, according to a communique from the council.

The conference is being held in connection with the publication of a new translation of the Book of Concord. The Cardinal's speech will deal with the preparation, contents, significance and limitations of the important ecumenical consensus document on the Doctrine of Justification between the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation.

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