By Angus MacKinnon
January 25, 2016 2:46 PM
Vatican City (AFP) - Pope
Francis will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by
attending an ecumenical service in Sweden as a guest of the Lutheran
church, the Vatican said Monday.In a highly
symbolic act of reconciliation that would even recently have been
unthinkable for a Catholic pontiff, Francis will visit the Swedish city
of Lund on October 31 for a commemoration jointly organised by his own
inter-faith agency and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF).
The
surprise move will see the head of the world's Catholics worship
alongside the heirs to a religious tradition founded in opposition to
the church of Rome and which once regarded the pope as the anti-Christ.
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