Eccumencial dialogue
Catholic-Orthodox commission returns to work
Fruits of Papal trip to Turkey
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Pope Benedict with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, during the Holy Father's recent trip to Turkey

Vatican City, Jan 30, 2007 / 04:17 pm (CNA).- The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity this morning released a communiqué announcing that starting this morning, January 30th, the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox will resume meetings in Rome, in accord with the agreement signed by Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, during the Pontiff’s recent trip to Turkey.
 
The meeting which will run through the 3rd of February is to be presided by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the pontifical council, and by Metropolitan Anba Bishoy of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

The Orthodox delegation includes representatives from seven local Churches that are part of the family of the Eastern Orthodox Churches: the Coptic Orthodox, the Syrian Orthodox, the Armenian Apostolic (represented by the two catholicosates of Etchmiadzin and Cilicia), the Ethiopian Orthodox, the Eritrean Orthodox and the Malankara Orthodox Syrian.
 
The Catholic delegation includes representatives of the Latin tradition and from the various Eastern Catholic traditions (Coptic Catholic, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Maronite, Syro-Malabarese, and Ethiopian).
 
In accord with the desires of Pope Benedict and Patriarch Bartholomew, the commission will continue its discussion of the ecclesiological questions regarding each Church’s structures of communion and the exercise of apostolic ministry in the Church; themes which continue to be two of the largest obstacles to Catholic-Orthodox unity.

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Published by: Charles Wadlow
Kirkland, WA 01/31/2007 12:04 PM EST
If the Orthodox and Catholic hiarchy can truly come together by the power of the Holy Spirit, then let us be ONE! Let these two Apostolic Brothers come together so we may all have a family reunion at the table of the Eucharist.

This unity is the most important step for Christian Unity to truly show Christ love for everyone and the fact that this unity will also testify that JESUS is the CHRIST!

Laus Deo! Today I will pray for our Orthodox brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Published by: G. De Feo
Brooklyn/NY/USA 01/31/2007 05:47 AM EST
It is commendable that the Catholic Church is humble enough to desire closer communion with other Christian churches, though the Russian Orthodox is still absent. Let us all pray as Catholics that in the face of modernism, humanism and moral relativism which infect the West, that the Holy Spirit will inspire the renewal so there will be unity born of God in the face of these evils.
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