Full communion the aim, Patriarch tells Pope (One World Religion)

Meeting Benedict XVI in Istanbul, Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew told the Pope that the Catholic and Orthodox churches share an unhesitating desire to restore full communion.

 
The patriarch emphasised "our common desire to continue, without hesitation, our journey in a spirit of love and faithfulness towards the truth of the Gospel and in the shared tradition of the holy Fathers, to restore full communion of our Churches."

 
Pope Benedict used the word ecumenical in a speech during his four-day visit to Turkey that is aimed at mending ties between the globe's 1.1-billion Roman Catholics and 300-million Orthodox Christians as well as with the Muslim world.

 
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