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.
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.
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.
Is the separation between Rome and Orthodoxy emotional (the deaths you mention), or theological?
Apologist325 2 years ago
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 3 years ago
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 3 years ago
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.
mikhail712 3 years ago