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Over the holidays, the Temple tried to participate in an ecumenical free-for-all in Florida's Capitol building in Tallahassee.
Belfast was the seat of the Society of United Irishmen (founded 1791), whose Enlightenment-inspired members dreamed of an ecumenical nation freed of corrupt Hanoverian monarchy and religious division.
(In less prominent galleries of prints, drawings and photographs, the curators seem freer and more ecumenical in their choices).
If this revelation did not turn enough heads, the cardinal confirmed the recent discovery that the city's own John Carroll, the first archbishop of Baltimore and the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States, who pioneered ecumenical tolerance, owned slaves and freed the last of them before he died in 1815.
In an entertaining new autobiography, "The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith" (Free Press), Joanna Brooks recalls ecumenical birthday parties as a young Mormon in California, and the anxiety she felt about simply seeing a bottle of Coke; Mormon parties featured (non-caffeinated) root beer.
The church gave the ecumenical movement new hope and language in the "Decree on Ecumenism" (1964), one of the classic ecumenical teaching documents.
It's the old utopian dream of creating a world obedient to our will, a world where "all countries move steadily toward democratic free markets," where "zealots, on the road to some mass persecution, fall down blind and rise ecumenical," where "criminals come across life-changing novels in prison," where "each day ends in some illustrative sunset, shattering or subtle".
"Playbook is ecumenical".
The window does feel ecumenical.
