Editorial, The Statesman, 4 November, 1999

In a joint declaration Catholic and Lutheran leaders have formally set aside doctrinal differences, bringing to an end one of the great ideological divides of the millennium ...

.... In today's context, where Christian countries in the affluent West are overwhelmingly secularised and religion itself is approaching marginal status, such doctrinal differences as exist must appear minor and arcane. This provides the backdrop for the settling of differences between these two major branches of Christianity, which once seemed as irresolvable ...