From Virginia-Sullivan's outreach extended to other faiths, as well. He donated $50,000 of diocesan funds to the Virginia Holocaust Museum when it was being built and sat on its board of directors.
He also helped found the Church of the Holy Apostles in Virginia Beach in 1977, a joint parish of the Catholic and Episcopal dioceses. Co-pastors conducted services at side-by-side altars — one for Catholics, the other for Episcopalians. The idea was popular among military families who came from different backgrounds and religions.
Last month, the Richmond diocese said the church could continue to longtime practice of allowing the blended church to remain under one roof, but it ordered clergy to devise a plan to meet in separate rooms for Holy Communion.
Sullivan's views reflected the liberal thinking found in the Roman Catholic Church in the 1970s, but he was criticized in the latter part of his career for moving too far away from the Vatican's central positions on church services and the priesthood.
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Ecumenism with Catholics is a contribution to your demise.
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