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62 Canon L. Soc'y Am. Proc. 3 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/cnlwsyoam62 and id is 1 raw text is: CLSA PROCEEDINGS 62 (2000) 3-18 CANON LAW AND ECUMENISM: GIVING SHAPE TO THE FUTURE JOHN F. HOTCHKIN When Father John Beal, the chairman of the planning committee for this convention of the Canon Law Society of America, first contacted me and extended the invitation to address you today, I admit I was both honored and at the same time hesitant to accept. I am conscious of the distinguished speakers who have already appeared before this convention to address questions of ecumenical importance and reflect on canon law and ecumenical progress. In her presentation in 1998 on Apostolicae Curae after a Century: Anglican Orders in Light of Recent Ecumenical Dialogue Margaret O'Gara took a serious look at the role of the church community and its intention in the act of ordination.' Also in 1998 Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. took up the question of Structuring 'Communio' in a Church Formed of Many Cultures in which he examined the reasons why the project of establishing alexfundamentalis for the Catholic Church was abandoned, leaving again before us the question first raised by Msgr. Thomas J. Green as to whether the church today requires a genuine canonical pluralism that need not hinder but rather enriches church unity.2 Monsignor Green also brought to my attention, for which I am grateful, the masterful paper of Father Bertram F. Griffin published in your 1993 Proceedings under the title The Challenge of Ecumenism for Canonists the scope of which revealed the breadth and the depth of the scholarship of its author.' What, I wondered, could there be left for me to say after such an array of brilliant presentations have already come before you? After thinking for quite a while about the theme of this convention, Law in the Service of the Gospel: Reflections at the Threshold of the New Millennium, it seemed to me perhaps there still might be something I could say. I entitled this ' Margaret O'Gara, Apostolicae Curae After a Century: Anglican Orders in Light of Recent Ecumenical Dialogue on Ordained Ministry in the Church, CLSA Proceedings 60 (Washington: CLSA, 1998) 1-18. 2 Church of Many Cultures, World of Globalization, Origins 28:22 (November 12, 1998) 392-396. Bertram F. Griffin, The Challenge of Ecumenism for Canonists, CLSA Proceedings 55 (Washington: CLSA, 1993) 17-38. -3-

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