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 do***ent 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 do***ent 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 do***ent 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.
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