New Russian patriarch won't make bold moves - Vatican

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By Michael Stott

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The new leader of the Russian Orthodox, the world's second biggest Christian church, is unlikely to make bold moves soon to heal an almost 1,000-year- old rift with Catholics, a top Vatican envoy said on Monday.

Cardinal Walter Kaspar told Reuters after meeting Kirill, the new Patriarch of the 160-million-strong Russian Orthodox Church, that he had not shown signs of breaking with his predecessor's Alexiy II's coolness towards Rome ...

"We have to respect their problems and their arguments so we do not push too much," the cardinal said. "I think perhaps after one year we can speak about it but now first he has to take possession of his new ministry" ...

The Vatican envoy said there were no firm plans at present to try to bridge the differences, though he hoped Russia would attend a Catholic-Orthodox dialogue meeting planned later this year. Moscow did not take part in discussions last time around ...

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-37796520090202?sp=true

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. Heard a story the other day that said basically the same thing.

It will be more of the same for all aspects of the Russian Orthodox Church and its policy.

[Sequoia]

2. What's with the 1,000 year old Hatfield/McCoy feud?

[Mme. Defarge]

3. One of them claims to be

the head of the Church and infallible.

[Sequoia]

5. Heh, heh....oh boy.

I like the Greeks better. Old Saint Paul was a mean mo fo.

[RandySF]

4. Why?

Why reach out to the Vatican now when the Pope thinks non-Cathlics are less than human (especially if you are a Jew)?