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To: kawaii; Lion in Winter; All
i never posted this as i didn’t want to get into an argument over it but it came out the same day...

First, what's the source? Second Met. Kirill is denying that an early meeting is imminent. We know that! If people read before they jumped to conclusions, they would have also known that Met. Chrysotomos II was talking about long-term planning first, and then he spoke Patriarch Alexey II to meet the Pope in Cyprus and not in Moscow. So, of course, the meeting is neither imminent nor in Moscow. Duh!

Furthermore, Met. Kirill did not say it would not happen; rather, he even assured them that it's not impossible – which is a roundabout way of saying it's possible.

He merely said that one must prepare for such an event (which is the same thing Met. Chrysostomos II said) and that they are "busy doing it."

This story also has no semblance of any kind with the story by Lion in Winter that the meeting will not take place until the Pope "disavows the take of Orthodox churches in the Ukraine."

Where do these people come up with these things? I really wonder about the maturity, reading level ability and thinking capacity of people who spread rumors. Not to talk about their motives.

36 posted on 06/21/2007 1:50:16 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

the source is interfax (its in the article).


37 posted on 06/21/2007 1:59:47 PM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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