Monday, April 16, 2007

The essence of the question

It is not a question of one or another valuation of the conduct of Cardinal Humbert; it is not a question of any personal falling-out between Pope and Patriarch that could be easily healed by mutual Christian forgiveness; no -- the essence of the question lies in those deviations from Orthodoxy which have become rooted in the Roman Church during the course of centuries...
Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky)

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