Bishop Anthony Ball promoted the Centre at the UK Friends’ Annual Lecture held on 14 October 2025 at Westminster Abbey by the Revd Canon Dr Jeremy Morris, National Advisor for Ecumenical Relations of the Church of England. The lecture is available in full below.

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Promotional note

The Reverend Canon Dr Jeremy Morris, the Church of England's National Advisor for Ecumenical Relations, gave the Anglican Centre in Rome's Annual Friends' Lecture on Anglican-Roman Catholic Unity sixty years on from Vatican II: What have we achieved? In the aftermath of Vatican II, and the beginning of the official Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue, hopes were high for a reunion of the two churches. Why has that not come about? What gains have there been, nonetheless? And what are the prospects for further progress towards unity? In reviewing the history of the last sixty years, Jeremy Morris seeks an answer to these questions.

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