Article: It is hard to know what to make of the Russian walkout from the Catholic-Orthodox meeting in Ravenna, Italy, last October.(While We're At It)(Brief article)

* It is hard to know what to make of the Russian walkout from the Catholic-Orthodox meeting in Ravenna, Italy, last October. Rome says it is an intra-Orthodox dispute that must be resolved by them. And it does seem to be a dispute between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Moscow, the latter exercising jurisdiction over more than half the Orthodox Christians in the world. The immediate issue was the presence of the Estonian Apostolic Church at the Ravenna meeting. That church is recognized by Constantinople but not by Moscow. Bishop Hilarion, who is the Orthodox bishop of Vienna and Austria, says he had no choice but to leave the meeting because ...

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