Author John Vennari looks at various steps in the 30-year process leading up to the 1999 Augsburg Accord - and documents the full support the work received from John Paul II. The Lutheran-Catholic Accord is being hailed as a major breakthrough in ecumenical relations. Vennari clearly shows, however, the impossibility of achieving a common understanding on two diametrically opposed teachings.

A clarifying and useful presentation of the facts.