Care to share that website address with us? I read Russian. Thank you.
i never posted this as i didn’t want to get into an argument over it but it came out the same day...
19 June 2007, 14:36
Metropolitan Kirill denies rumors of Patriarch’s early meeting with Pope
Moscow, June 19, Interfax - Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad has denied rumors of Russian Patriarch Alexy II’s early meeting with Pope Benedict XVI.
“It’s difficult to say who circulated these rumors - perhaps someone who wants to keep them rolling,” Metropolitan Kirill, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, told the press in Moscow on Tuesday.
Metropolitan Kirill also said that the Russian Orthodox Church remains in permanent dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church, discussing important issues with it.
“But Pope Benedict’s visit to Moscow is not on the agenda right now,” he said.
The Russian church “has never said that a meeting between the Patriarch and the Pope is impossible,” he said. “But all of these important events in inter-church relations must be preceded by serious work and we are busy doing it,” he said.
“Someone has probably gotten ahead of events,” Metropolitan Kirill said.