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March 4, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, 1701 Harns Rd., Oak Harbor, WA 98277, fbns@wayoflife.org) - InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), like Campus Crusade for Christ and Youth for Christ, is dedicated to ecumenical relationships with Rome. In the early 1970s, InterVarsity Fellowship was already working with Catholic coordinators in their Bible studies in Catholic universities (Eternity, Nov. 1971).

The following report was made in 1971: "InterVarsity Christian Fellowship has been aided by the Catholic Alexian Brothers in operating a coffee house in Chicago’s hip ‘Old Town.’ Weekends, students from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Wheaton College work at the coffee house and sleep free at the Brothers’ home nearby. Last summer thirty evangelical youth worked full time and were boarded by the Brothers for a nominal fifteen dollars per month each" (James Hefley, A Prejudiced Protestant Takes a New Look at the Catholic Church, p. 123).

IVCF has joined with all sorts of ecumenical rallies and conferences since the early 1970s. IVCF was represented on the Central Committee for Key ‘73 and was a participant of the North American Congress on the Holy Spirit & World Evangelization, both of which had strong Catholic participation (see descriptions at the beginning of Part III of this book). Catholic priest Thomas Welbers announced in the official Los Angeles diocese paper that a four-year dialogue between IVCF and the Catholic Campus Ministry has resulted in an agreement to seek "mutual understanding" and to "refrain from competition in seeking members" (Battle Cry, October 1992).

In 1994, InterVarsity Press came out with the Handbook of Christian Apologetics by two Roman Catholic authors, Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli. Kreeft is a Catholic apologist who believes that Mary will ultimately conquer Satan and who believes that even Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists will probably go to Heaven. Tacelli is a Jesuit priest and a professor at Boston College. Why would InterVarsity choose Catholics to write such a book, or why would they publish such a book by Catholics?

In 1997, InterVarsity Press published Reclaiming the Great Tradition: Evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox in Dialogue. It was edited by James Cutsinger and contained articles by Harold O.J. Brown, Peter Kreeft, Richard Neuhaus, J.I. Packer, and others. The book is a collection of material from an ecumenical dialogue held at Rose Hill College, May 16-20, 1995. The objective of the dialogue was to answer the question: "How can Protestants, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians talk to each other so as together to speak with Christ’s mind to the modern world?" (p. 8).[Source: http://www.whidbey.net/~dcloud/otimothy/info.htm)

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