“But with efforts being made by PBXVI to outreach to the Eastern Orthodox Churches, things couuld ease up.”
I am very skeptical. PBXVI will not be pope forever and there is remarkable inconsistency between popes.
EOs will never accept supremacy and Rome will never settle for primacy. It may not be optimistic, but that’s the way it’s been for nearly 1,000 years.
“I am very skeptical. PBXVI will not be pope forever and there is remarkable inconsistency between popes.”
True, but at least he is planting the seeds for the future. Considering the threats that is going on now against Christians in the Middle East, warmer ecumenical relations certainly cannot hurt.