CATHOLIC AND RUSSIAN ORTHODOX OFFICIALS MEET IN GENEVA

VATICAN CITY, MAR 20, 2003 (VIS) - The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity today released the following communique:

"Cardinal Walter Kasper, council president and His Eminence Kirill, metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, president of the Department for External Ecclesiastical Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, met in Geneva on March 19 to discuss the situation of the relations between the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church. In the course of the frank discussions it was agreed that further consultations will be held with the intention of resolving the problems that exist between the two Churches."

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