Pope Calls for Orthodox Church Unification

World | August 26, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
Pope Calls for Orthodox Church Unification Pope John Paul II hoped the return of the precious icon “Our Lady of Kazan” to the Russian Orthodox Church would hasten “mutual understanding and reconciliation” between the Roman Catholic Church and its Eastern counterpart. Photo by AFP.

Pope John Paul II said he hoped the return of a precious icon to the Russian Orthodox Church would hasten "mutual understanding and reconciliation" between the Roman Catholic Church and its Eastern counterpart. The 84-year-old pope was speaking Wednesday at a ceremony at the Vatican marking the return of the icon of "Our Lady of Kazan" to the Russian Church in what Vatican analysts said is a ecumenical gesture designed to heal a longstanding rift with Orthodoxy.

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