Moscow, Russia, Mar 19, 2008 / 21:59 pm
Disappointment and questions have followed the cancellation of a meeting between Moscow’s new Catholic bishop and the Patriarch of Moscow, AsiaNews reports.
Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, the new archbishop of the Moscow-based Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow, on Wednesday was to meet with Alexy II, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. The patriarchate itself announced the postponement of the meeting.
Catholic leaders did not provide any explanation for the meeting’s postponement.
"We had great hope in this meeting", a priest in Moscow told AsiaNews. "We hoped that it might be not simply a courtesy visit, but the chance for a fraternal and constructive discussion of the problems that concern our faithful."