Ecclesiastical diplomacy bore fruit last week, and with it a massive new area was added to the ecumenical movement's ever-widening embrace. At the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, chairman of the World Council's central committee (and president of the United Lutheran Church in America), announced that the Russian Orthodox Church has applied for membership.
It was an application that had been cautiously courted for years. When the World Council of Churches was being formed, invitations were sent to the pre-Reformation churchesRoman Catholic, Greek and Russian Orthodoxbut...
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