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Entry: The Pope's Kitchen Cabinet Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/pope_benedicts_secret_teacher#12996 Post contents: " ... and reach out for reconciliation with the other remnants of traditional Christianity, that is, with Eastern Orthodoxy, with Oriental Orthodoxy, and with the even more ancient Church of the East, now threatened with extinction by America’s allies." Well, one can hardly oppose "reconciliation" -- but this will evidently be something quite far from "union" or "re-union." Catholic-Orthodox dialogues been going on for some 40 years now. If the goal is indeed "full communion," it's no closer now than it was then. It has been my experience that Catholics haven't a very clear idea what Orthodoxy's "terms" are if full communion is to be achieved. These are very well expressed by Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko in his landmark paper of 1995, "Roman Presidency and Christian Unity in our Time." For those who may be interested, here's a link: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/HopkoPope.php Sent at: 2008 11 23