In 1995, I had finished my graduate studies at Franciscan
University and was teaching at a renovated Cistercian monastery in Gaming,
Austria. That same year on May 25, Pope John Paul II issued the encyclical Ut
Unum Sint (That they may be one). Today marks the 25th anniversary of the
encyclical. Pope Francis calls for a renewed interest in the Church’s
commitment to unity among Christians. Ut Unum Sint was issued on the Solemnity
of the Ascension under the “sign of the Holy Spirit, the creator of unity in
diversity.” In 1996, I began working and teaching at North Central University,
a small Christian College in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. During the twenty
years I spent there, I discovered that what unites Christians is stronger than
what divides us and that there already exists a certain yet imperfect unity
among us.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-05/pope-renews-ecumenical-commitment-on-anniversary-of-ut-unum-sint.html?fbclid=IwAR1ksGQL8vu8Ytns9fLxxnidPtaYC2bryyVOR8qQlduPZsY_so5RP4gEXm4
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