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Monday, March 27, 2006

Pope to visit MOSCOW?

Seriously, my head is starting to spin with all the rumors about where Benedict is (and is not) next headed:

INTERVIEW - Pope visit to Moscow looks increasingly possible

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Long-strained relations between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches are improving quickly and a papal trip to Moscow in coming years looks increasingly possible, a Vatican official said on Monday.

Some differences remain to be ironed out before Pope Benedict could make the trip, but a new spirit in bilateral talks has already brought progress, Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the Vatican's Council for Christian Unity, told Reuters.

A papal visit to the home of the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest in worldwide Orthodoxy, was the great unfulfilled dream of the late Pope John Paul II. But a thaw in chilly relations with Moscow has come under his successor Benedict. [more]

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