Sitemap - This details pages before 2025

When the site was relocated to be under the auspices of the British Association of Interchurch Families (interchurchfamilies.org.uk), many of the pages were relocated.  This page is an attempt to provide, for the benefit of any outside links and references, a way to locate each page in its new location.

No pages produced after 2024 will be found here, as they did not exist prior to relocation.

What is an interchurch family?

 International Discussion Group 


Christian Unity

Rome Document

AIF & EWARC2020



Eucharistic Sharing - Authoritive and Other Statements

Ut Unum Sint

La Hospitalite Eucharistique (1983)

Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms of Ecumenism (DAPNE, 1993)

Note de la Commission Episcopal Francaise (1994)

Pastoral Guidelines: Catholic Malankara Syrian Orthodox (1994)

Archdiocese of Brisbane (1995)

USCCB Guidelines for the Reception of Communion (1996)

Rockhampton Diocese Guidelines(1998)

One Bread One Body - Catholic Bishops Conferences of England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland (1998)

One Bread, One Body - A Response (1999)

Other Christians and the Eucharist - Diocese of Rockville Centre (1999)

Diocese of Rockville Centre (1999) - AIF Commentary

South African Bishops Directory (2003)

Mit Christus Gehen – Der Einheit auf der Spur (2018)

Walking with Christ - Tracing Unity(2018)

German Bishops Summary by Ruth Reardon

Gemeinsame Feier der Taufe (2021)

Diocese of Saskatoon - Revised Sacramental Sharing (2021)

Guidance Issued but no longer available

Diocese of Helena and Great Falls-Billings (1982)

Adelaide - Guidelines for Eucharistic Sharing in the Catholic Church (1997)

Dioceses of Charleston (1997, Revised 2012)

Maitland - Real Yet Imperfect: Pastoral Guidelines for Sacramental Sharing (2001)

Diocese of Pheonix 2005

Diocese of Saskatoon

Sacramental Sharing (2007)

Pastoral Notes (2008)

Archdiocese of Santa Fe Handbook for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs (2009)

 Interchurch Marriage and Ecumenism (M,F&S Journal)

MFS 30-1 2024 Interchurch Marriage - Table Of Contents

MFS 30-1 2024 Editorial

MFS 30-1 2024 Makumi

MFS 30-1 2024 Chen

Connell-Walking the path to Christian Unity

Vernon-journey

Winter-Changes in Marriage

Woodruff-Personal Journey


Marriage and Getting Married

Getting Married

Making a Marriage - Seeking Unity

Water Into Wine

Mixed Marriage - Revised Directory (England and Wales, 1990)

Mixed Marriage - Revised Directory - a commentary


The Domestic Church Project - Overview

Overview

Living in the Domestic Church - A UK Perspective, 2016

Interchurch Families and Christian Unity (Rome Document, 2003)

Report on the AIF Groups, Spring 2007, Dr Ruth Reardon

Conjugal and Ecclesial Communion -  (Dr. Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi, Journal of Ecumenical Studies 44:3, Summer 2009 - used with permission)

Interchurch Families as Domestic Church: More Real Than Imperfect? (Ray Temmerman)

Loving the universal church through a spouse's church (Jean Baptiste Lipp)

Are Interchurch Families Domestic Churches   (Dr. Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi)

Domestic Church Report – AAIF-Nov 2007   (Rev. Dr. George Kilcourse)

Being One at Home: Interchurch Families as Domestic Church   (Dr. Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi, One In Christ Vol 42 No 2 2008. reprinted with permission)

Interchurch Families as Domestic Church   (Klemens and Elisabeth Betz, ARGE-2009)

How Do Children Become Active Subjects within the Domestic Church? Reflections on a Neglected Subject within Roman Catholic Ecclesiological Discourse on the Domestic Church   Dr. Peter De Mey. Children’s Voices. Children’s Perspectives in Ethics, Theology and Religious Education (Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium, 230), ed. Annemie Dillen & Didier Pollefeyt, Leuven, Peeters, 2010, 295-306. Published electronically with permission from Dr. Peter De Mey, Annemie Dillen, and Peeters Publishing.

The Ecumenical Household as Domestic Church?   (Dr Bernard Prusak, Leuven 2010)

Interchurch Families as Improbable Grace   (Rev. Dr. George Kilcourse, Leuven 2010)

Interchurch Couples: Witness to Communion   (Dr Mary Marrocco, Leuven 2010)

Interchurch Families: an indispensable microcosm   (Jean-Baptiste Lipp, Leuven 2010)

Interchurch Families as Domestic Church: Familial Experiences   (Ray Temmerman, Leuven 2010)

Interchurch Families as Domestic Church: Familial Experiences and Ecclesial Opportunities   (Ray Temmerman, 2011)

Domestic Church: A Review of Documents, Papers, and Presentations   (Ray Temmerman, 2011)

Interchurch Families – A Test Case for the “Domestic Church”   (Thomas Kniepps-Port le Roi)


Additional Papers


Synods

Synod 2015

IFIN Response to Synod 2015

IFIN - Comments of Instrumentum Laboris

Amoris Laetitia - Synod on the family 2015

Summary of Amoris Laetitia

Comments from an Interchurch Family perspective   Comments from an Interchurch Family perspective   (Ruth Reardon) 

Synod 2021-2024

2022 - Contribution to the Synod Conversation


Publications and Resources by the Association of Interchurch Families, UK

  Interchurch Families  Journal


  Interchurch Families International Reflections (IFIR)

IFIR Number 9

IFIR Number 8

IFIR Number 7

IFIR Number 6

IFIR Number 5

IFIR Number 4

IFIR Number 3

IRN Number 2

IRN Number 1


  Interchurch Families international News (IFIN)

IFIN December 2011 Newsletter

IFIN November 2009

IFIN November 2008

IFIN August 2007

IFIN July 2006

IFIN December 2005

IFIN April 2005

  Interdependent

October 2006

October 2003

January 2002

April 2001

October 2000

April 2000

October 1999

July 1999

January 1999

March 1998

January 1998

September 1997


Other Publications

USA (The Ark)

Fall 2007

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016 - December

Ecumenism given a shot in the arm

Youth Forum


Other Articles

1985-2010

2011 Forward

2021 Forward


Conferences & Events

  International

Virginia 1996

Geneva 1998

Canada 2001

Rome 2003

Australia


    National

Austria

Canada

England

2000

2001

2008- Still  Going at 40!

2011   - Report on Swanick Conference

France

1995

1997

Germany

USA

American Association of Interchurch Families

1999

2004- Biannial Conference

2010


Other Events

Ecumenical Award

World Council of Churches, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2006

Receptive Ecumenism (2014)

John Coventry Memorial Lecture, 2016


Sacraments and Other Resources

Disclaimer

Baptism

Eucharist

Marriage

Death & Bereavement


General Resources


Tables for Two 


Country Websites


Personal Journies