Pope Francis: communion with Orthodox, without conditions

“I want to assure each one of you here that, to reach the desired goal of full unity, the Catholic Church does not intend to impose any conditions except that of the shared profession of faith.  Further, I would add that we are ready to seek together, in light of Scriptural teaching and the experience of the first millennium, the ways in which we can guarantee the needed unity of the Church in the present circumstances.  The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, ‘the Church which presides in charity,’ is communion with the Orthodox Churches.” Speaking at the end of a Divine Liturgy celebrated by Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Pope Fr ...

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