(Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity.
Our duties to ecumenism are fully appreciated, and carried out with enthusiasm.
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What is the difference between ecumenism and recruiting for one's own church?
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Surely this is taking political ecumenism a step too far?
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Mr Paisley founded the Free Presbyterian Church in opposition to church practices like ecumenism
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It is a reminder of a kind of underground ecumenism that was always there.
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Such was the nature of Abram's ecumenicism.
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Last year I was at a meeting of the Letterkenny Theology group with senior priests informing us about the progress in ecumenicism.
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The Catholic Church's World Youth Day festival is proving a success, despite rows over free speech, ecumenicism and clerical sex abuse, writes Pádraig Collinsin Sydney.