TheDicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, previously named thePontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU), is adicastery within theHoly See whose origins are associated with theSecond Vatican Council which met intermittently from 1962 to 1965.
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Pope John XXIII wanted theCatholic Church to engage in the contemporaryecumenical movement. He established aSecretariat for Promoting Christian Unity (SPCU)[1] on 5 June 1960 as one of the preparatory commissions for the council, and appointedCardinalAugustin Bea as its first president. The secretariat invited other churches and world communions to send observers to the council.
The Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity prepared and presented a number of documents to the council:
Following the council, in 1966Pope Paul VI confirmed the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity as a permanentdicastery of theHoly See.
In the apostolic constitutionPastor bonus (28 June 1988),Pope John Paul II renamed the secretariat the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
The PCPCU has two sections dealing with:
The dicastery has a twofold role:
Since its creation, it has also established a cordial cooperation with theWorld Council of Churches (WCC). Twelve Catholic theologians have been members of the WCC'sFaith and Order Commission since 1968.
The PCPCU is responsible for naming Catholic observers at various ecumenical gatherings and in its turn invites observers or "fraternal delegates" of other churches or ecclesial communities to major events of the Catholic Church.
At present, the PCPCU is engaged in an international theological dialogue with each of the following churches and world communions:
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Directed by a Cardinal President, assisted by a Secretary, a Joint Secretary, and an Under-Secretary.
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The council is responsible for working with other churches on ecumenical translations of scripture, and promoted the establishment of theCatholic Biblical Federation.[citation needed]
TheCommission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews is the responsibility of the PCPCU, while theCommission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with Muslims comes under the direction of thePontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. This is because when the council was being created the Commission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews was consulted as to whether it wished to come under the Inter-Religious Dialogue Council, it declined and thus remains part of the Promoting Christian Unity Council.[citation needed]
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