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"Issues and Reflections" succeeds "Issues - Reflections - News" which itself replaced the Interchurch Families 'Journal' which had its last issue released in the summer of 2004.
"Issues and Reflections" (IFIR) is an email
newsletter compiled by Ruth Reardon and distributed two or three times a year.
You can subscribe
to it free.
Those who cannot receive email can request paper copies from
Ruth Reardon
Little School House,
High Street,
Turvey,
Bedford MK43 8DB,
UK(Email correspondence can be sent to Ruth at )
- IFIR Number Seven, October 2007
- ARCIC and IARCCUM: an Interchurch Family Perspective
by Ruth Reardon, British Association of Interchurch Families- Ten Creative Years, in Rome and in French-speaking Countries, 1959-1970
by René Beaupère OP, Foyers Mixtes, Lyon, France- A Short History of the Association of Interchurch Families
by Ruth Reardon, AIF Secretary 1968-2000- Loving the Universal Church through the Church of One’s Spouse
by Jean-Baptiste Lipp, Association of Interconfessional Families in Switzerland- Are Interchurch Families Domestic Churches?
by Thomas Knieps Port-le-Roi, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
- IFIR Number 6, April 2007
- A Handbook of Spiritual Ecumenism
Section on Mixed Marriage Families, from a vademecum by Cardinal Kasper
- Sacramentum Caritatis on eucharistic sharing
The 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist and the Apostolic Exhortation by Benedict XVI- That they may be One: an Interchurch Marriage
by Ruth Reardon, British Association of Interchurch Families- Listening to the Voices of the World Church: the Fifth John Coventry Memorial Lecture
by the Revd David Coffey, President of the Baptist World Alliance- Transfiguration
A homily preached by Fr Robert Murray SJ for the British Association of Interchurch Families
- IFIR Number 5, November 2006
- Interchurch Families: Laboratories of Unity: Warsaw, May 2006
by Pope Benedict XVI- Interchurch Families in New Zealand: three articles from Wel-com
by Sally and John Faisandier- A Report on the Societas Oecumenica consultation, Prague, August 2006
‘Ecumenism of Life as a Challenge for Academic Theology’
by Ruth Reardon- Interchurch Families: Gift and Challenge, Prague, August 2006
by René Beaupère OP- Conjugal and Ecclesial Communion in Interchurch Marriage, Prague 2006
by Thomas Knieps Port-le-Roi- ‘Double Belonging’, Prague, August 2006
by Ruth Reardon- Ecumenism and Interchurch Families
from the Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America 2005
by George Kilcourse- CTSA address 2005
by Ralph Del Colle- CTSA address 2005
by Janice Thompson- IFIR Number 4, April 2006
- Mixed Marriages: Conversations in Theology, Ecumenism, Canon Law and Pastoral Practice
by the Most Revd John McAreavy, Bishop of Dromore- Mixed Marriages in the Light of Ecumenism: Problems and Prospects
by Jude Abidemi Asanbe, Catholic Institute of West Africa- A Mennonite Catholic Marriage
by Tom and Pat Crotty, Bridgefolk, USA- Catholic Learning: Explorations in Receptive Ecumenism, Ushaw College, Durham, January 2006: Reflections from an interchurch family perspective
by Ruth Reardon, British Association of Interchurch Families- Meeting of representatives of the Interchurch Families International Network with staff of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, October 2005: a short report
by George Kilcourse, Pastoral Adviser of the American Association of Interchurch Families
- IRN Number 3, April 2005 (the former "Issues - Reflections - News")
- Martin Reardon, 1932-2005
A homily preached by Dr Mary Tanner at the funeral of of Martin Reardon, General Secretary of Churches Together in England, 1990-1997, and a founder-member of the British Association of Interchurch Families, on 21 January 2005- Reconciliation
A homily preached by Fr Robert Murray SJ for the Association of Interchurch Families at Heythrop College, London, on 26 February 2005- Remembering Fiona
Tributes to Fiona (Anglican) by her Roman Catholic husband Tim at her funeral in Torquay, England, and at a memorial mass celebrated for interchurch families, Autumn 2004- The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church
A Response to the Lineamenta in Preparation for the Synod of Bishops by an internatioanl interchurch family network, 30 November 2004- IRN Number 2, September 2004
- A transforming Ecumenical Initiative: Ministry to Interchurch Engaged Couples
A description of a new local initiative in marriage preparation by Fr George Kilcourse, Louisville, Kentucky- Bridgefolk Stories
by two Catholic-Mennonite couples, George and Abbey Dupuy and Sarah and Phil Brubaker- The Fourth Meeting of French-speaking interchurch families, 22-23 May 2004
held at Rimlishof, Mulhouse, Alsace- IRN Number 1, June 2004
- Between the Times, Between Communities: Eucharistic Theology for the Bridge
by Gerald W.Schlabach, Bridgefolk, USA- Unity in Difference: Spiritual Challenges in Interchurch Family Life
by Ruth Reardon, British Association of Interchurch Families- Thirty Years of Interchurch Marriage
by Simon Quail, British Association of Interchurch Families- Communion between Anglicans and Roman Catholics
A story from Susan and David, Association of Interchurch Families, Australia- Response to Antelias from Interchurch Families Around the World, May 2004
A response to the World Council of Churches’ paper ‘From Antelias with Love’ on the future shape of the Ecumenical Movement
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