OL VI, June 2002, Washington , DC
"Eastern Catholic Churches: Window Between East and West?"
William Cardinal Keeler - "At
the ... Balamand meeting in 1993, the role of the Eastern
Catholic Churches figured prominently. The text invites Eastern
Catholic Churches to participate fully in the Catholic-Orthodox
diologue at all levels."
Patriarch Gregory III - "Sometimes,
I ask myself, maybe with naivete: If am in full communion
with Rome, and I have nothing to change in my Creed, in my
Liturgy, which are the same ones as in Orthodoxy, why am
I not in communion with the Orthodox Church, and why is the
Orthodox Church not in communion with Rome?"
Metropolitan Nicholas of Amissos - "Indeed,
I do believe that the Eastern Catholic Churches are an aperture
of sorts between Western and Eastern Christianity. From time
to time this window opens and there is movement between the
two realities ... Like any window, it is not always open,
and when closed shut ... it can become soiled and smudged
with the exigencies of human history and human frailty."
Archbishop Vsevolod of Scopelos - "The
discussion of the position of the Eastern Catholics in the
wider relationships between the Catholic Church and the Eastern
Orthodox Church has never been easy, and it has become much
more painful of the past fourteen years or so."
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