ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY VISITS BENEDICT XVI
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Rowan Williams Notes 2 Sides to Story of Vatican-Anglican Relations
VATICAN CITY, MAY 5, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The archbishop of Canterbury,
ahead of a private meeting with Benedict XVI, acknowledged that the
Anglican Communion is going through an "unprecedentedly difficult time."
Archbishop Rowan Williams told Vatican Radio before his encounter with
the Pope today that he was expecting "a fairly informal and low-key
meeting."
Williams added: "I hope to bring him up to date on our plans about the
Lambeth conference, perhaps to discuss with him a little what's going to
be happening at the [Christian-Muslim] conference this week at Palazzola
and just touch base with him about China, the initiatives we're involved
in with regard to the churches in China."
The Anglican leader is in Rome this week for the 7th Building Bridges
seminar with Christian and Muslim scholars, scheduled for Tuesday
through Thursday.
And he explained some of the initiatives regarding China: "We've been
trying to build relation****ps with scholars of religious studies in
China. We brought a group over a little while ago to meet some British
theologians and that was very constructive; so it's really a question of
keeping the door open for something more than polite exchanges but more
real theological dialogue."
Holy See relations
Vatican Radio noted that some people consider the current relation****p
between the Holy See and the Anglican Communion to be in its most
difficult moment since the Second Vatican Council.
"It depends where you're looking from," Williams responded. "I think
that in terms of the conflicts within the Anglican Communion then yes,
it's an unprecedentedly difficult time, no two ways about that."
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