Cardinal Kasper sees "significant progress" in ecumenism

The former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper sees "significant progress" in ecumenism according to a report in the German Protestant news agency, the evangelischer Pressedient. In the foreword to a new book by German Lutheran Bishop Friedrich Weber, "Zeitansage - Texte zur ökumenischen Lage", Kasper notes developments such as the declaration by 11 churches in Germany in 2007 on the mutual recognition of Baptism.