An inter-confessional church is one shared by Catholics and Protestants.
The Reformation led to 2,000 of these "marriages of convenience”.
Sometimes the two religious communities have had to share a church
for centuries. Everything was a potential source of conflict. The causes
were often banal. There wasn’t enough money for two churches so they
had to share and fight over times of services, baptismal fonts, running
costs and building funds. Today there are only about 60
inter-confessional churches in Germany. In most cases, the "marriage of
convenience” has evolved into a genuine sense of community - places
where the future of ecumenism is practiced.
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