[Kolokotronis]

The Pope said:

"Words aren't enough, he said, adding that "concrete gestures" were needed even from ordinary Catholics to reach out toward the Orthodox.

"I also ask all of you to decisively take the path of spiritual ecumenism, which in prayer will open the door to the Holy Spirit who alone can create unity," he said."

You wrote:

"It won't happen because the Orthodox have made it clear they won't reconcile until the Pope kisses the feet of their patriarchs and then falls on his sword."

I sincerely doubt that is our position, but do you think your words are those that +Benedict XVI was thinking of?

[Conservative til I die]

I sincerely doubt that is our position, but do you think your words are those that +Benedict XVI was thinking of?

Maybe he was thinking of the prayers of those Orthodox in Greece who prayed for John Paul II's (or, "the three-horned devil" as some called him) plane to crash on his way to Greece for a pilgrimage a few years back?

The nastiness cuts both ways.