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Pope to make declaration of unity with Orthodox Church |
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Published by Turkish Daily News
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Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
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"Pope to make declaration of unity with Orthodox Church">Pope to make declaration of unity with Orthodox Church" "As more than a billion Catholic and 250 million Eastern Orthodox followers look on, Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Bartolomeos I will make history today when they unite under a single shared faith for the first time since 1054....The two churches have been divided for a millennium by a dispute over whether the pope outranks the patriarch, who is considered the “leader among equals” among the patriarchs of Eastern Orthodox religions....Konstantinou said that the meeting between the two religious leaders “launches a new practice on the part of the Roman Catholic Church, to live out what John Paul II had often proclaimed, that Christianity breathes with two lungs, one of which is the Orthodox church.”......In a homily last year, the pope said he was “prepared to do everything in his power to advance the fundamental cause of ecumenism.”
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