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Article: Struggling toward resurrection.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 28, 1997
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Rejoice. It's Easter.
Or is it?
As one Lent -- the Lent of the West -- leans into the finish line, another Lent -- the Lent of the Orthodox East -- is just warming up. Some years the two Easters fall on the same Sunday, but often, as a result of a centuries-old disagreement, they diverge. This year Eastern Orthodox Christians will celebrate "their" Easter four Sundays after "ours."
At a recent roundtable discussion among Orthodox and Roman Catholic leaders in Rome, many expressed the hope that the two traditions might agree to a common date by the year 2,000.
If this is a scandal, it's one my ecumenical family has been exploiting ...