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Pope Francis Calls for Unity with Orthodox Churches
The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 12/1/18 | CNA

Posted on 12/01/2018 7:37:00 PM PST by marshmallow

The Pope expressed his desire to work for full communion between the Catholic and Orthodox churches

On the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, Pope Francis told the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople that while the Holy Spirit has in recent years prompted a “fraternal dialogue” between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, both Churches should work to achieve full communion with one another.

“While centuries of mutual misunderstanding, differences and silence may seem to have compromised [the relationship between the Catholic and Orthodox Church], the Holy Spirit, Spirit of unity, has enabled us to recommence a fraternal dialogue,” the pope wrote.

“This was definitively resumed by our venerable predecessors, Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Saint Paul VI, and has enabled us to rediscover those bonds of communion that have always existed between us.”

“The search for the re-establishment of full communion is above all a response to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who on the eve of his Passion prayed that his disciples ‘may all be one,’” the pope added.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the de facto leader of Orthodox Christianity, is believed to be the successor of St. Andrew. While the various Orthodox Churches around the world are not subject to his administrative authority, he is generally regarded as primus inter pares, or “first among equals” in relationship to the patriarchs of other Orthodox Churches.

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1 posted on 12/01/2018 7:37:00 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Of course he does. One world religion goes with one world government.


2 posted on 12/01/2018 7:40:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: marshmallow

The Churches of the East will not communion with the Churches of the West. They see them as corrupt child effers.


3 posted on 12/01/2018 7:40:40 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Good.
Bergogelio has screwed up one church and is trying to screw up another.


4 posted on 12/01/2018 7:53:44 PM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: marshmallow

Would the pope decentralize his authority away from Rome to local bishops?


5 posted on 12/01/2018 7:57:48 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: marshmallow

The Catholic Church is the Hindenburg under the faux pOpE.


6 posted on 12/01/2018 7:58:03 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Of course he does. One world religion goes with one world government.

You see clearer than most.

7 posted on 12/01/2018 8:04:08 PM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
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To: marshmallow

Can we just call this child molester the Leftist Pope and make them own him in total?


8 posted on 12/01/2018 8:05:11 PM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
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To: marshmallow

The two sides can start by unifying the calendar.


9 posted on 12/01/2018 8:10:18 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: marshmallow

Frankie may not care about pesky things like doctrine, but we Orthodox do. This is a big fat nothing burger going nowhere at the speed of light.


10 posted on 12/01/2018 8:30:50 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: marshmallow

Hell will freeze over before anyone unites with Francis


11 posted on 12/01/2018 9:34:46 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: marshmallow
both Churches should work to achieve full communion with one another.

So I guess this means that pedophilia and sodomy will be brought to the table by Bergoglio?

12 posted on 12/01/2018 9:44:07 PM PST by bkopto
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To: JerryBlackwell

Oh the Unitarians might.


13 posted on 12/01/2018 10:35:35 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: fwdude; E. Pluribus Unum

Of course he does. One world religion goes with one world government.
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You see clearer than most.
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True.


14 posted on 12/01/2018 11:35:11 PM PST by Norski
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To: marshmallow

One had better watch the “union” that Pope Che might be referring to.


15 posted on 12/02/2018 5:27:06 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: marshmallow

Our jackass pope.


16 posted on 12/02/2018 6:58:33 AM PST by exPBRrat (.)
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To: ZULU

>>Good.
Bergogelio has screwed up one church and is trying to screw up another.<<

Precisely so. And as a traditionalist Roman Catholic I caution all in the hierarchy of the Orthodox Churches, stay away from this renegade Roman Pontiff or you will lose your credibility throughout Christendom. DON’T DO IT!


17 posted on 12/02/2018 2:48:20 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (English, the universal language of success.)
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To: NRx

>>This is a big fat nothing burger going nowhere at the speed of light.<<

As a traditionalist Roman Catholic, I pray for the future of Orthodoxy throughout the world that you are right.


18 posted on 12/02/2018 2:51:39 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (English, the universal language of success.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Unless people like us rise up and stop this and be prepared to use every means available to do so, the same progressive ideologues who have invaded our churches, educational institutions, entertainment fields, government, etc. will destroy western civilization.
We have to stop trying to understand or compromise with the Bergoglios, George Soroses, etc of the world.
We have to destroy them, because most assuredly, that is what they are trying to do to us.

If you are a Catholic and this bothers you, you need to STOP contributing to the church, demonstrate, write, become angry and vocal and insist Bergoglio go and be replaced with another mainstream Catholic Pope. Bergoglio and all his supporters need to go even if he has to dragged kicking and screaming from the Vatican along with all his supporters.


19 posted on 12/02/2018 7:23:14 PM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: ZULU

>>Unless people like us rise up and stop this<<

I am in total agreement with every point of your excellent post.


20 posted on 12/02/2018 7:36:33 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (English, the universal language of success.)
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