Caritas asks for Orthodox priest to provide pastoral assistance
Nizhniy Novgorod (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The Catholic Church in
Archbishop Tadeuzs Kondrusiewizc, head of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in
“The proposal was heard out favourably,” the press service of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in
During the talks, which were held in a spirit of openness and mutual understanding, the two “sides admitted that an effective and mutually acceptable settlement of emerging issues and misunderstandings would promote further development of Catholic-Orthodox relations”.
The hierarchs expressed hope in future cooperation for the sake of the common goal which is the salvation of man and consolidation of society.
Alleged Catholic proselytising in places the Moscow Patriarchate claims as Orthodox by tradition is one of the issues fuelling tensions between the two Churches in
However, the Catholic Church and its social institutions have always had an open door policy based on solidarity towards the Orthodox clergy, and have guaranteed them the right to provide their own pastoral care to Orthodox under Catholic care. For instance, in a Salesian-run orphanage in
Archbishop Kondrusiewizc presented His Eminence Georgiy with the recently published Russian edition of then Card Joseph Ratzinger’s (now Pope Benedict XVI) book Introduction to Christianity with a foreword by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and
The Orthodox hierarch, in turn, presented the archbishop with an icon of the Mother of God and a volume on the
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