Abstract:
This article seeks to enhance this imagination and further it by presenting a recent
venture in global ecumenism that crosses cultural/contextual, confessional, and disciplinary
boundaries as an inspiring paradigm for this pilgrimage. Specifically, it will do so
by looking at the initially tri-, and eventually quadrilateral consultation on catholicity and
globalization conducted by the Philippine Iglesia Filipina Independiente, the Old Catholic
Churches of the Union of Utrecht, the Episcopal Church, and the Church of Sweden
(the Church of Sweden joined as observer from 2007 onwards). This consultation took
place between 2006 and 2008, with three meetings, in the Netherlands (Maarssen), the
USA (New York City), and the Philippines (Manila). Its papers were subsequently
published as well as a brochure on a witness of being catholic in a globalized world who
spoke in a particularly intense way to the participants in the consultation, the Philippine
bishop Alberto Ramento, who became a martyr in 2006. Looking at this consultation
will show how churches can indeed join each other and “move together,” address
various challenges together, listen to each other, and act in solidarity.
