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2001 - 2004
- Summer 2004 (12.2)
- Fourty years on (12.2.1)
- The Journal 1993-2004: An Overview (12.2.2-3)
- Interchurch family groups in Europe and the Churches (12.2.4-5)
- Why I receive communion at the Lord's Supper (12.2.6)
- My experience of confirmation and membership (12.2.6)
- Swiss conferences 1974-2003 (12.2.7-8)
- Interchurch families around the world (12.2.9)
- Agreements on interchurch marriages in Switzerland (12.2.10-11)
- Problems and passion (12.2.11)
- Greek Orthodox marriages in the USA (12.2.12-13)
- January 2004 (12.1)
- From Rome with joy (12.1.1)
- Address by Cardinal Kasper (12.1.2-3)
- Anglican greetings (12.1.4)
- Address by Mgr Giuseppe Chiaretti (12.1.5-6)/journal/pdf/2004V12N01January.pdf#page=5
- Address by Professor Daniel Garrone (12.1.6)
- Address to the Pontifical Council (12.1.7-8)
- Message from the Second World Gathering of Interchurch Families - Rome 2003 (12.1.8)
- Interchurch Families Around the World (12.1.9)
- Franco-Swiss conferences 1967-1981 (12.1.10-12)
- Learning to forgive (12.1.12-14)
- A spirituality for interchurch marriage (12.1.15)
- Summer 2003 (11.2)
- Celebrating initiation into Christ and the Church (11.2.1)
- Baptism into Christ and the Church in an interchurch family context (11.2.2)
- What about the child of a Roman Catholic-Baptist couple? (11.2.3)
- A long wait for baptism (11.2.4)
- A blessing for our children (11.2.5-6)
- Baptism of believers (11.2.7)
- Christian initiation in interchurch families (11.2.8-12)
- German guidelines on eucharistic sharing: a correction (11.2.12)
- The path of Roman Catholic and Anglican Unity (11.2.13-15)
- January 2003 (11.1)
- Summer 2002 (10.2)
- January 2002 (10.1)
- Summer 2001 (9.2)
- Going Beyond (9.2.1)
- You and your children (9.2.2)
- There is no blueprint for interchurch children (9.2.3)
- Celebrating 25 years (9.2.4)
- Making Love: The first rule of marriage (9.2.5-7)
- Interchurch families around the world (9.2.8)
- Italian-French-Swiss Conferences (9.2.9-10)
- Baptising our daughter (9.2.11)
- Eucharistic Sharing: Forming our consciences (9.2.12-16)
- January 2001 (9.1)
- 1996 - 2000
- Summer 2000 (8.2)
- Unity by stages (8.2.1)
- New South African Guidelines for Eucharistic Sharing (8.2.5-6)
- Rockhampton Diocese Guidelines for Eucharistic Sharing (8.2.7)
- My Experience as an Interchurch Child (8.2.8-9)
- Practical Steps Forward in Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations (8.2.10-13)
- Eucharistic Sharing in Interchurch Families in Relation to Authority Issues (8.2.14-15)
- A Tribute to Joannes Cardinal Willebrands
- January 2000 (8.1)
- What do we mean by interchurch families? (8.1.1)
- God Called us to Marry (8.1.2)
- One Church at Home (8.1.3)
- Ruth's Baptism (8.1.4)
- Reaffirming my Commitment (8.1.5)
- Reflections Over 30 Years (8.1.6-7)
- Interchurch Families Around the World (8.1.8-11)
- Ministry to Interchurch Marriages (8.1.12)
- Challenge and Significance (8.1.13)
- Interchurch Families - A Triptych (8.1.14-15)
- Summer 1999 (7.2)
- Summer 1999 (7.2.1)
- Homily at Heythrop (7.2.2-3)
- Interchurch Marriage and Freedom of Conscience in Zimbabwe (7.2.4-6)
- World Council of Churches 8th Assembly (7.2.6)
- Setting up a Local AIF Group in Zimbabwe (7.2.7)
- Padare at Harare (7.2.8)
- Interchurch Families Around the World (7.2.9)
- One Bread - One Body: A Commentary (7.2.10-15)
- January 1999 (7.1)
- Fr. Michael Hurley on Fr. John Coventry (7.1.1)
- Everyone who asks will receive (7.1.2-3)
- We love one another (7.1.4)
- A witness to ecumenism (7.1.5-6)
- Geneva 1998 (7.1.7)
- Interchurch Families Around the World (7.1.8)
- Opening up ecumenical space (7.1.9-13)
- How I invented dual affirmation (7.1.14)
- Our Silver Wedding - A special occasion (7.1.15)
- Summer 1998 (6.2)
- Editorial (6.2.1)
- Personal and Corporate (6.2.2)
- Christian Unity in Marriage (6.2.3)
- Occasions of Need (6.2.4-5)
- Eucharistic Sharing - Southern Africa (6.2.6-7)
- Around the World (6.2.8-9)
- Mixing Love And Faith: a Jewish Perspective (6.2.10-11)
- Christian-Muslim Marriages (6.2.12-13)
- Christian-Hindu Marriage (6.2.14-15)
- Interfaith marriage Guidelines (6.2.15)
- January 1998 (6.1)
- Summer 1997 (5.2)
- January 1997 (5.1)
- Virginia 1996 (5.1.1)
- We went to Virginia (5.1.2-4)
- Church - Eucharist and Family (5.1.5-6)
- Christian Unity and Interchurch Families: An English Perspective (5.1.7-9)
- Interchurch Marriages and the reception of the Eucharist (5.1.10-11)
- Bone of my bone - flesh of my flesh (5.1.12-13)
- Interchurch Families - Hope for the Churches (5.1.14-15)
- Summer 1996 (4.2)
- Come Down Quickly! (4.1.1)
- First Communions in our Family: A Reflection (4.2.2)
- Eucharist And Family: Essential to Communion (4.2.3-4)
- LEPs and Interchurch Marriage (4.2.5-6)
- Interchurch Families: A model for the LEP community (4.2.7)
- Interchurch Families Around the World (4.2.8-11)
- Interchurch Families: Ecumenically liberating the Church (4.2.12-15)
- January 1996 (4.1)
- 1990 - 1995
- Summer 1995 (3.2)
- Conscientious Decisions (3.2.1)
- Discerning the Body (3.2.2)
- Validity and Orders (3.2.3-4)
- Two Ordinations: One Reality (3.2.4)
- Nick and the Eucharist (3.2.5-6)
- Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (3.2.7)
- News From Southern Ireland (3.2.8-9)
- A House Blessing (3.2.9)
- Interchurch Families as a Threat of Resurrection (3.2.10-15)
- January 1995 (3.1)
- Summer 1994 (2.2)
- Sharing Communion (2.2.1)
- Joanna is Baptised (2.2.2-3)
- Interchurch Families and Christian Unity (2.2.3)
- A Generation Ago (2.2.4-5)
- First Catholic Agreement: Catholic / Syrian Orthodox (2.2.6-7)
- Interchurch Families Around the World (2.2.8-9)
- Admission to communion in the Roman Catholic Church for partners in Interchurch Families (2.2.10-15)
- January 1994 (2.1)
- So What's New?
- First Holy Communion (2.1.2-3
- An Interchurch Family in the Country (2.1.4-6)
- Families as Agents of Evangelism (2.1.6)
- My Other Parish (2.1.7)
- From Problem to Mission (2.1.7)
- Interchurch Families Around the World (2.1.8-9)
- Making a Marriage: Seeking Unity (2.1.10-11)
- Five Opportunities (2.1.12-13)
- Challenges to Jesus (2.1.14-15)
- Summer 1993 (1.2)
- No Blueprint (1.1.1,16)
- A View From Both Sides - Mary (1.2.2-3)
- A View From Both Sides - A Daughter Speaks (1.2.4-5)
- A Two-Church Family (1.2.6-7)
- Interchurch Families Around the World (1.2.8-9)
- The New Ecumenical Directory (1.2.10-11)
- The New Directory: Section on Mixed Marriages (1.2.11-12)
- A Pastoral Priority (1.2.12-14)
- An Appeal to the Churches (1.2.14-15)
- Ruth Belongs to Both (1.2.15)
- Eighth International Conference (1.2.15)
- January 1993 (1.1)
- A New Look for Interchurch Families (1.1.1)
- Alexandra's First Communion (1.1.2)
- Helena's First Communion (1.1.3)
- Water On The Carpet (1.1.3)
- Catholics and Protestants (1.1.4-7)
- The AIF Video (1.1.8-9)
- No Cross - No Resurrection (1.1.9)
- A Reflection on a Mixed Marriage (1.1.10)
- Marriage Across Frontiers (1.1.10-12)
- In Dublin's Fair City (1.1.13)
- English ARC (1.1.14)
- Finding the Brick Wall - Roman Catholic / Methodist Committee (1.1.14-15)
- Grandparental Ecumenism (1.1.15)
- International Year of Family (1.1.16)
- No Cross, No Resurrection
- Summer 1992
- Summer 1990
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Issues and Reflections
- IRN Number 1 - June 2004
- IRN Number 2 - September 2004
- IRN Number 3 - April 2005
- IFIR Number 4 - April 2006
- IFIR Number 4 - Introduction
- Mixed Marriages: Conversations in Theology, Ecumenism, Canon Law and Pastoral Practice
- Mixed Marriages: Conversations in the Light of Ecumenism
- A Mennonite Catholic Marriage
- Catholic Learning: Explorations in Receptive Ecumenism
- Meeting of IFIN and some staff of the PCPCU
- IFIR Number 5 - November 2006
- IFIR Number 5 - Introduction
- Pope Benedict XVI - Interchurch Families as "laboratories of unity"
- Interchurch Families in New Zealand
- Report from an Interchurch Family Perspective, to 14th Academic Consultation, Societas Oecumenica
- Interchurch Families: Gift and Challenge
- Conjugal and Ecclesial Communion
- Ecumenism of Life as a Challenge to Academic Theology
- Resurrecting the Body Ecumenical
- Ecumenism and Interchurch Families
- Ecumenism and Interchurch Families: Janice Thompson
- IFIR Number 6 - April 2007
- IFIR Number 7 - October 2007
- IFIR Number 8 - October 2008
- IFIR Number 9 - April 2010
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- Background to the Rome paper (Reardon)
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- Healing Hurts: the lived experience of "One Body Broken"
- Real Yet Imperfect - Bp Michael Malone
- Interchurch Families: Ecumenical Significance and Challenge (E Harrington)
- Interchurch Families: Ecumenical Significance and Challenge (C Budden)
- Reports
- Geneva 1998
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- Receptive Ecumenism III (2014)
- Receptive Ecumenism in the International Perspective
- RE III Conference Overview
- Interchurch Families in the Vanguard of Ecumenical Discourse
- The Red Dust Meets the Bitumen
- The Hermeneutics of Interchurch Families
- Divided We Stand: How Mixed Marriages Teach Receptive Ecumenism
- Receptive Ecumenism and Couple Therapy
- Report by Margie Dahl
- Report by Fenella Temmerman
- Report by Ray Temmerman
- Philippa Hitchen, Vatican Radio
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- John Coventry Memorial Lecture 2016
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- Overview
- Interchurch Families and Christian Unity
- Questionnaire in View of Theology Working Group - Unpublished
- IFIN Evaluation of Questionnaires
- IFIN Theological Working Group: Study
- Conjugal and Ecclesial Communion - Unpublished, 2006
- Interchurch Marriage: Conjugal and Ecclesial Communion
- Interchurch Families as Domestic Church: MOre Real Than Imperfect?
- Loving the Universal Church Through A Spouse's Church
- Are Interchurch Families Domestic Churches?
- Interchurch Families - A Test Case for the Domestic Church (Unpublished)
- The Domestic Church: Report on Conversations
- Being One at Home: Interchurch Families as Domestic Church
- Interchurch Families as Domestic Church - ARGE Conference
- How Do Children Become Active Subjects Within The Domestic Church?
- The Ecumenical Household as Domestic Church: Ecclesial Threat or Pastoral Challenge?
- Interchurch Families as Improbable Grace
- The Interchurch Couple: Witness to Communion
- Interchurch Families: An Indispensable Microcosm.
- Interchurch Families as Domestic Church: Familial Experiences
- Interchurch Families as Domestic Church: Familial Experiences and Ecclesial Opportunities
- Domestic Church Project: Review of Papers
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Episcopal Statements & Responses
- Episcopal Statement Overview
- Walking with Christ - Tracing Unity (Provisional Draft- 2018
- Diocese of Saskatoon - Letter of Bishop LeGatt (2007)
- What is life like... (UK) (2006)
- Diocese of Phoenix (2005)
- Southern African Bishops - Directory (2003)
- Diocese of Maitland - Real Yet Imperfect (2001)
- Diocese of Rockville Center (1999)
- --One Bread One Body - A Response (1999)
- --One Bread One Body - One Year (1999)
- One Bread One Body (1998)
- Rockhampton Diocese Guidelines (1998)
- Archdiocese of Adelaide (1997)
- USCCB Guidelines for Reception of Communion (1996)
- Archdiocese of Brisbane (1995)
- Pastoral Guidelines: Catholic - Malankara Syrian Orthodox (1994)
- Note de la commission episcopale francaise (1993)
- L'Hospitalite Eucharistique (1983)
- Dioceses of Helena and Great Falls-Billings (1982)
- Diocese of Charleston (1997, Revised 2012)
- Archdiocese of Santa Fe (2009)
- Diocese of Saskatoon - Pastoral Notes (2008)
- Diocese of Saskatoon - Sacramental Sharing (2007)
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Other Publications
- Busan, Korea, 2013 (Large: 20MB in size)
- The ARK (USA)
- The Interdependent
- AIF-UK Annual Review 2008
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Other Articles
- 1998 - 2010
- A Question of Eucharistic Sharing (1998)
- Of Sign & Sacrament (1998)
- One Bread One Body: A Commentary From an Interchurch Family Point of View (1999)
- Interchurch Families and the Quest for Unity (2000)
- Revealing the Holy (2000)
- To the Editors, re Marriage (2001)
- Eucharistic Sharing: Recent Developments (2001)
- Interchurch Families: Sign & Summons (2001)
- Bridgefolk (2004)
- Between the Times: Between Communities: Eucharistic Theology for the Bridge (2004)
- Unity in Difference (2004)
- A Response to Antelias (2004)
- Trials of the Nuptial Melting Pot (2005)
- Pioneers, Not Problems (2007)
- Toward a Language of Faithful Possibilites (2009)
- Innsbruk Faculty of Theology
- Interchurch Families: Witness to Christian Unity
- 2011 Forward
- Thesis: Interchurch Families as Domestic Church (2011)
- Amoris Laetitia: Comments from an Interchurch Family perspective (2016)
- Being One at Home: Review (2015)
- Interchurch Families as Ecumenical Instruments (2018)
- INTERCHURCH MARRIAGES: towards a spirituality (2017)
- Nourishment for the Journey (2017)
- Walking the path to Christian Unity (2017)
- Eucharist: An Opportunity for Familial Reception? (2018)
- German Bishops' Proposed Guidelines on Eucharistic Sharing in Interchurch Families (2018)
- Interchurch Families: What about the children? (2018)
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- You Want Your Baby Baptized?
- Baptism: The State of the Question
- Baptism in Church of England Churches
- What About the Children...
- Celebrating Baptism in Interchurch Families
- The Sacrament of Baptism
- The Question of Baptism
- The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ
- Baptised Into Christ
- Rosemary is Baptised
- More Baptism Stories
- Joanna Is Baptised
- Directory on Ecumenism: Baptism
- Rite of Bringing a Baptised Child to the Church
- Christian Initiation for the Child of a Roman Catholic / Baptist Couple
- Eucharist
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- Decree-Code-Directory: Admission to Eucharist
- First Communion: Family Crisis
- Mixed Marriages: Cardinal Willebrands
- First Communion
- Eucharistic Sharing: Applications of the Code
- After 25 Years
- Ellen's First Communion
- Eucharistic Division: The Human Cost
- Alexandra's First Communion
- First Holy Communion
- Admission to Roman Catholic Communion for Partners
- Two By Two
- Paul's First Communion
- Not Worthy to Receive
- Sharing Communion: Occasions or Cases?
- Sharing Communion: Fact Sheet
- Archdiocese of Brisbane Guidelines
- Together at the Altar Rail
- Ut Unum Sint: Initial Response
- Simple Statement - Present Position
- A Source of Joy
- Knocking at the Door
- Validity and Orders
- Discerning the Body
- Interchurch Families & Eucharistic Sharing, Present and Future
- Soundings for Interchurch Families
- Eucharistic Sharing - German Guidelines
- Mark's First Communion
- Mark's First Communion
- Cardinal Hume and Interchurch Families
- Eucharistic Belief - John Coventry
- Second European Assembly - Graz
- Guidelines for Eucharistic Sharing - Southern Africa
- Marriage and the Eucharist
- Sharing Communion: New Testament Legacy
- Our Silver Wedding: A Special Occasion
- Everyone Who Asks Will Receive
- Roman Catholic Position in Outline
- One Bread, One Body - Initial Response
- One Bread, One Body: Further Reflections
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- Guides for a Lutheran-Catholic Marriage (Minneapolis 1995)
- Getting Married
- Mixed Marriages - Revised Directory
- What About the Children?
- A Wedding in Louvain
- A Wedding in Grasse
- A Wedding in Manchester: Water Into Wine
- The Canonical Form of Marriage
- Making Marriage, Seeking Unity
- Churches Together in Marriage
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- Mixed Marriage and Interchurch Families - Centrepiece
- Death & Bereavement
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