Orthodox CAN receive the eucharist at Roman Catholic Churches, I don't know if that is true in the reverse.
"Orthodox CAN receive the eucharist at Roman Catholic Churches, I don't know if that is true in the reverse."
The reverse is not true, at least officially as the issue was reviewed by a pan Orthodox commission in the 1990s and as no consensus was reached on the question, intercommunion was rejected. There is a de facto intercommunion in Lebanon and I believe Syria among the Orthodox, the Melkites and the Maronites.
Like SalukiLawyer, I would be very surprised if the Pope in any way encouraged Roman Catholics to approach for communion in an Orthodox Church. He may, however, have said that there is no Roman impediment to that. In American Roman Churches in the missal booklets there is a statement that Roman Catholic law does not forbid the Orthodox from presenting themselves for communion but points out that Orthodox praxis does and urges the Orthodox to respect the rules of their own Church.
Well, why would the Orthodox do that?? They do not recognise the primacy of the Pope. Neither do the Baptists for that matter and they do not take communion in the Roman Catholic Church.
Well that's news to me and probably quite a few Orthodox. We can only accept Eucharist from the Orthodox Litergy and Orthodox priests.