2. ELCA News Service

2009 Joint Declaration Celebration Chicago

Representatives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) joined Catholics and Methodists in Chicago Oct. 1 in a 10th anniversary celebration of a historic agreement, the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ). News release.
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    Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Archdiocese of Atlanta, delivers the homily during the Oct. 1 JDDJ celebration in Chicago.
    Leaders of the Oct. 1 JDDJ celebration at Old St. Patrick Church, Chicago, were, from left, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Archdiocese of Atlanta; Cardinal Francis George, president, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and president, the Lutheran World Federation.
    The Rev. Ishmael Noko, left, general secretary, the Lutheran World Federation, speaks with the Rev. Lowell Almen, former secretary, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and co-chair of the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue.