Working Toward Reconciliation: The Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue
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After nine centuries of schism, new ecumenical impulses especially since the Second Vatican Council are leading Eastern Orthodox and Catholics to a new relationship. In a Common Declaration in 1965, Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, together aimed to remove from the midst of the Church the mutual sentences of excommunication of 1054, calling for dialogue to resolve issues separating them, and to lead towards full communion. This program will illustrate how far the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue has come. Msgr. Paul McPartlan, S.T.L., D. Phil. “The Achievements of the International Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue.” Msgr. McPartlan is The Carl J. Peter Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecumenism, and Acting Dean, School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America\ Professor Paul Meyendorff, M.Div., Ph.D. “Steps Toward a Reunited Church: A Sketch of an Orthodox-Catholic Vision for the Future” The 2010 publication of The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation. Professor Meyendorff is the Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology, and Director of Continuing Education at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. 
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