We can pray
for future unity, the Anglican bishops regretted the split and Catholics can pray with and for their brethren but Catholics are not celebating it.
Present - day Mankind, as it becomes increasingly aware of its unity — not only past unity in the blood, but
future unity in progress — is experiencing a vital need to close in upon itself.
The church is the foretaste of
the future unity of humanity and of all things, the place where the future impinges visibly, sacramentally, on the present.
Nevertheless, the Second Vatican Council declared in Lumen Gentium that Mary is a potential ecumenical bridge, a source of
the future unity of all Christians.
He explained: «In the WCC, as well as in Vatican Council II, the ecumenical emphasis was that the church, as a sacramental reality, symbolizes
the future unity of a new humankind in the Kingdom of God.
«I've thought about it and still feel it is better for you and
the future unity of the party that I go now.
Mr Watson, known for pursuing the phone hacking scandal, wrote that it was better for the «
future unity» of the Labour Party that he resigned.