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Pod Tract 30 Withered Branches or Living Vine?
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New Pod - Tracts For Our Times"
Published November 11, 2026 6:30 PM America/New_York
Bishop Kevin Donlon
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This Pod Tract examines whether the Branch Theory fails as a descriptive map of the Church but retains value as an ecumenical compass: a discipline of acting toward other communions as though the unity of the Church were already real. We will assess whether the theory—rightly pruned—can still offer a hopeful and realistic vision for future unity, proposing that its honest heir is the pursuit of "reconciled diversity" embodied in the Anglican–Roman Catholic dialogue and in covenanted full-communion relationships.