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Article: He unravels mysteries about the Christian East. (Americans in Rome - Paulist Father Rob Roberson) (Interview)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 2, 1993
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ROME -- He quotes John Wesley from the pulpit and Wesley's words ring out across a Roman Catholic Church built a century before Methodism's founder was born. He has served four years on the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, and he is an authority on the Eastern Christian Churches.
Paulist Father Ronald Roberson is a long way from Hutchinson, Kansas.
Roberson already is well-known in the Eastern churches field because he has produced three editions -- he is working on the fourth -- of a "brief survey" of The Eastern Christian Churches, published by the Oriental Institute in Rome (see "Roberson sees four district Eastern Christian Communions")
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