Mitropolit Kirill is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

[mikhail712]

If you don't understand this, you have no clue about Orthodoxy. Patriarch-Elect Kirill said recently that there will not be any rapprochement with Rome . As far as improving a diplomatic relationship - yes. Lots of institutions maintain diplomatic relationships. This business of the Western press speaking about reunification is sheer nonsense.

[mikhail712]

NO leader of the Russian Orthodox Church can take it upon himself to make an ecumenical deal with Rome and side step these enormous doctrinal differences.

[mikhail712]

There are serious doctrinal differences between Orthodoxy and Rome . Unless the pope is willing to go back in time to the period of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, there will not be any rapprochement between Orthodoxy and Rome - that is just a pipe dream. The blood of tens of thousands of martyrs and numerous other believers who died for their Orthodox faith is a testament to that fact.

[Apologist325]

Is the separation between Rome and Orthodoxy emotional (the deaths you mention), or theological?