Archbishop Bernard Longley, a leading figure in inter-church dialogue, has said that a further relaxation of the rules regarding intercommunion, including eucharistic sharing, would be a sign of deeper shared understanding of the sacrament. Here, two ecumenists give their views To me it came as a surprise, when we assembled at Bose Monastery in northern Italy back in May 2011 for the first meeting of Arcic III (the third series of talks of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission), that the two archbishop chairmen had decided that we should not, as a body, share the full participation in each other’s Eucharists. We were free to exercise our individual judgements, but as a body we would express at the daily Eucharist our lack of unity rather than our partial unity. I al