As the world has become more globalised, so the imperative for the Churches to come together appears to have diminished. Speakers at a recent debate about the future of worldwide Christianity considered this apparent paradox How dim and dusty the ecumenical ideal seems these days compared with only a few decades ago. Yet “unity” is still a watchword in the historic world Churches, including the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. The latter is currently going through agonies trying to maintain it, faced by growing and increasingly assertive Churches outside the West. Never mind Athens and Jerusalem, it’s now Nigeria and the United States that look as if they will never meet. The Catholic Church’s struggle to maintain unity has been manifest in the attempt