I also greet the Catholic and Greek Orthodox pilgrims from the United States. May God bless all of you!
As a Greek Orthodox Christian myself I wish I could have been there...May God Bless you too your excellency!
Among the 15,000 faithful gathered in the square were Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Methodios of Boston. The two leaders were heading a 100-member Catholic-Orthodox ecumenical pilgrimage from the United States to Rome, then Istanbul, Turkey, and ending in St. Petersburg, Russia.