Moscow, 26 December 2007 (Interfax):
The Moscow Patriarchate sees no particular progress in the development of the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue. ”In my view, today, the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue is going slowly, just as [it did] in previous years”, Fr Vladimir Vigilyansky, a spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchate, told journalists at a seminar at the Moscow Carnegie Centre. The main reason for this is the [existence of] outstanding [unresolved questions] between the Vatican and the Moscow Patriarchate. [This situation] prevents a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Aleksei II of Moscow and all Russia [at the present time].
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