Exploring a common future for Mennonites and Catholics
- “Mennonite and Catholic: A Journey of Healing” by Gerald W. Schlabach
- “You Converted to What? One Mennonite’s Journey“, by Gerald W. Schlabach, Commonweal, 1 June 2007
- “The Church as Sign or Sacrament: Trinitarian Ecclesiology, Pilgram Marpeck, Vatican II and John Milbank“, by Neal Blough
- “John Howard Yoder: Mennonite, Evangelical, Catholic“, by Mark Thiessen Nation
- “On Being a Mennonite Catholic” by Ivan Kauffman, Mennonite Quarterly Review, April 2002
- “Between the Times, Between Communities: Eucharistic Theology for the Bridge” by Gerald W. Schlabach
- “Mennonite-Catholic Conversations in North America: History, Convergences, Opportunities ” by Ivan Kauffman,Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 1999
- “Renewing the Conversation: Mennonite Responses to the Second Vatican Council” by Earl Zimmerman, Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 1999
- “The Bridgefolk Movement in Ecumenical Context” by Gerald W. Schlabach
- “Are Mennonites Sacramental?” by Thomas Finger
Working for peace, justice and respect for life
- A Mennonite and Catholic Contribution to the World Council of Churches’ Decade to Overcome Violence
- “‘Has Christ been divided? Was Paul Crucified for You?’: The Evangelical Imperative of Ecumenical Peacemaking and the Bridgefolk (Mennonite-Catholic) Movement“, by Darrin Snyder Belousek, Mennonite Life, Fall 2007
Plus: Snyder Belousek’s reply to objections, Mennonite Life, Spring 2008 - “How Catholics began to speak their peace” by Tom Cornell, Salt of the Earth
- “Toward a Consistent Ethic of Life in Peace Tradition Perspective” by Darrin W. Belousek
- “What is a Peace Church?.” by Gerald W. Schlabach
- “The Christian Witness in the Earthly City: John H. Yoder as Augustinian Interlocutor.” by Gerald W. Schlabach
- Debate on Just War Between Conservative Catholic Thinker George Weigel and Mennonite scholars in Mennonite Life online journal
Integrating sacramentality and discipleship
- “‘This Is My Body’ The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the Call to Be Peacemakers” by Elizabeth T. Groppe
- “‘Handing Us Back Ourselves:” On the Rediscovery of Mennonite Spirituality” by Mary Schertz
- “An Anabaptist Liturgy of Hours,” book review by Doris Murphy of Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book edited by Arthur Paul Boers, Barb Nelson Gingerich, Eleanor Kreider and Mary H. Schertz (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 2005)
- “Ritual as My Third Language: An Autobiographical Account“, by John Rempel
- “The Nonviolent Eucharist,” by Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy [click here for related articles]
- “Do This in Remembrance of Me” by Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy (PDF only)
- “In the Belly of a Paradox: Reflections on the Dubious Service of Reflecting on Service,” by Gerald W. Schlabach (article links discipleship and sacraments)
Other resources for ecumenical dialogue
- The healing of Jun Yamada and the canonization of St Josef Freinademetz, SVD
- Fernando Enns’ survey of Mennonite ecumenism — book review by Helmut Harder
- “The Ecumenical Mountain” — homily by Fr. Rene McGraw OSB at funeral mass for Margaret O’Gara
- 1966 reports on Vatican II by C.J. Dyck, church historian and executive secretary of Mennonite World Conference