[NYer]

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his speech during the first day of a three-week meeting of the world's bishops at the Vatican Monday, Oct.3, 2005. More than 250 bishops, cardinals, heads of religious orders and others from about 118 countries will take part in the Synod of Bishops.

[RKBA Democrat]

"For reasons of theological proximity, rather than to Protestantism Benedict XVI is looking to the Churches of the East, and to the meeting with the patriarch of Constantinople that both of them wanted to hold next November 30, the feast of Saint Andrew, but which has been postponed because of resistance from the government of Ankara.

And he is looking with confidence toward the lesser chapter of ecumenism represented by the healing of the schism with the traditionalist followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. On August 29, he received their present superior, Bernard Fellay."

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