Orthodox-Catholic dialogue

[Steve Hayes]

No breakthrough in Orthodox-Catholic dialogue - Russian Church

Moscow, February 19, Interfax - The Moscow Patriarchate doesn't share the
optimism of Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for
Promoting Christian Unity, regarding the outcome of a meeting between Orthodox
and Catholics in Ravenna.

Earlier, the Vatican official said in an interview with the Our Sunday Visitor
magazine, while commenting on the final document adopted by the Ravenna
meeting of the Mixed Orthodox-Catholic Theologian Commission, that a "real
breakthrough" had been accomplished in the dialogue between the two Churches.

"I don't share Cardinal Kasper's optimism about the Ravenna document and deem
it premature," Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and all Austria, who represents the
Russian Church in European international organizations, told Interfax-Religion
on Tuesday.

The Russian and Bulgarian Orthodox Churches and the Orthodox Church in America
did not attend the Ravenna meeting. More than half of the Orthodox population
are members of these churches, he said.

Consequently, the bishop said, the Ravenna document cannot be described as
"Orthodox-Catholic." It is an agreement between representatives of the
Catholic Church and some, but not all local Orthodox Churches, he said.

http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=4307

[A Brown]

Post by Steve Hayes
No breakthrough in Orthodox-Catholic dialogue - Russian Church
Moscow, February 19, Interfax - The Moscow Patriarchate doesn't share the
optimism of Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for
Promoting Christian Unity, regarding the outcome of a meeting between Orthodox
and Catholics in Ravenna.

While the dialogue will no doubt continue....I have come across those who
are rooting for no such reconciliation. There are those who would prefer
that the Catholic Church stand firm against any such reconciliation....which
they would consider a failure.