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Article: Unity depends on mutual efforts.(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- April 13, 2001
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It is shocking to note bitter hostility to an upcoming papal visit to Greece and the Ukraine -- hostility so deep in those strongholds of Christian Orthodoxy that observers hint not only of anticipated rudeness but also of possible violence.
It is equally troubling to note that Pope John Paul II, even as he professes eagerness to improve relations with Christian Orthodox churches in the East, continues a process of centralization, of authority that has marked so much of his papacy.
That process of appropriating authority traditionally vested in local dioceses is at the root of tensions with the Orthodox, both historic and contemporary.
The ...