{"id":6426,"date":"2006-08-20T09:13:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T09:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/back-on-track.html"},"modified":"2006-08-20T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T09:13:38","slug":"back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/back-on-track.html","title":{"rendered":"Back on track?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hoping to get Roman Catholic-Orthodox dialogue going again:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Catholic-Orthodox international dialogue commission is meeting in the Serbian capital of Belgrade Sept. 18-25, in what Pope Benedict XVI has optimistically described as a "new phase in dialogue."<\/p>\n

That the encounter is taking place at all has been described as a big step forward by Vatican officials. Representatives from 10 Orthodox churches, including the Russian Orthodox Church, will attend.<\/p>\n

But church officials also recognize that it wouldn’t take much to send the whole enterprise off the rails again.<\/p>\n

For one thing, the two main topics of the meeting are papal primacy and the role of Eastern Catholic churches — two of the sorest points in Catholic-Orthodox relations.<\/p>\n

In fact, it was the re-emergence of Eastern Catholic churches in post-communist Eastern Europe that so troubled the mixed commission’s meetings throughout the 1990s. After an acrimonious meeting in Emmitsburg, Md., in 2000, the dialogue was suspended.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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