Moscow, February 5, 2016, 16:40 – REGNUM in the world today potentially become another historical event more. If it is the will of God, February 12, Cuba will meet the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and the Pope. Of course, for encyclopedias and textbooks it is important that they will be Cyril and Francis. But in terms of age is more significant is that after a thousand years of the divided branches of Christianity have done a huge step towards each other. And we, the contemporaries, witnessing this.
Director Print Hall of the Holy See Father Federico Lombardi revealed some details of the upcoming meeting, according to Radio Vaticana. According to Federico’s father, Patriarch Kirill will be in Cuba on Thursday, 11 February. On the same day in Havana due to arrive the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch. On Friday, February 12, the Pope will fly from Rome to Mexico. At 14:00 local time, its board will make a stop at the Cuban airport Jose Marti. Here Francis will be on the usual protocol, atmosphere – the apostolic nuncio, Cuban President Raul Castro and the president of the Cuban Conference of Catholic episcopate, Cardinal Jaime Ortega. 14:15 Patriarch and Pope carried out in a special meeting room. “The airport will have two main places: a room for private talks behind closed doors, and the second room, where he will sign a joint declaration”, – said the director of the press hall of the Holy See. The working languages of the talks will be Russian and Spanish. Around 16:15 will be exchanged gifts, and then Cyril and Francis gave a short improvised statements without preparation, to express how Father Federico said his “personal feelings in this amazing and wonderful day.”
Certain closed-door talks at two o’clock – it’s a lot, even taking into account the fact that part-time steals translation from one language to another. And that incites curiosity. It is known today that the Patriarch and the Pope will talk about the persecution of Christians (and thus emerge in the Middle East problems). But what else? In this regard, attention is drawn to an interview with “foreign minister” of the Moscow Patriarchate, the head of the Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion, which he gave to the Serbian newspaper “Evening News” and has been published on the website of the DECR January 21 this year. Answering the question of publication, is whether the proselytizing of Catholics major obstacle to meeting Cyril and Francis, the Metropolitan said: “Currently, the problem of forcible seizure of churches in the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is connected, first of all, to the actions of the schismatics of the so-called” Kiev Patriarchate ” who use nationalist sentiment in Ukraine for their own purposes … As Catholic proselytism on the canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate, it was a serious problem fifteen years ago, but now has lost its edge. Relations with the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries are developing in the spirit of constructive cooperation … In recent years, our bilateral relations have improved significantly. On both sides there is awareness of the need to cooperate for a more effective response to the main problems and challenges of our time. As a rule, the position of our Churches in this regard are very similar: it is the need to defend traditional Christian values in secular society, and protect Christians from persecution, primarily in the Middle East and the peace-keeping efforts and a common approach to address the major social and humanitarian tasks. ”
The head of the DECR noted that the pope has repeatedly demonstrated an interest in “fruitful development of dialogue and cooperation” with the ROC. And his position as well as the official position of the Holy See on such burning issues as the civil conflict in Ukraine, developments in the Middle East and the situation of Christians in this region are very similar to the view, which is shared by the Patriarch. There is reason to assume that this is not an exaggeration and the Vatican really moved towards Moscow. Italian Catholic portal Vatican insider mentions that Pope Francis as obsolete way of “Uniate”. As the newspaper notes, the pontiff of the opinion that the Eastern Catholic Churches, of course, have the right to exist. But Uniatism – the word is from another era. Today, we can not use it, you need to find another way. So it is no accident the other day, commenting on the American Catholic portal Inside the Vatican prospects of meeting the Pope of Rome and the Patriarch of Moscow, Cardinal Koch said: “The light is no longer red, and yellow.” It was a hint that the positions closer together. And first of all, in Ukraine, where between the Vatican and Moscow, there is a third – Constantinople. According to the famous vatikanoveda Sandro Magister, “the Patriarch wants to act with greater autonomy, acquire confidence and charisma of the spiritual leader, Russian” Pope Francis “, partly competing with the patriarch of Constantinople.” Patriarch of Moscow and the Pope have a strong interest in meeting with each other, and if it happens – it will be a strong surprise, which will put the whole world and opponents of the two leaders before the fact, the expert concluded.
Accordingly, the results of the negotiations will be already talking about another important stage of development of relations – the arrival of Pope Francis in Russia. If such an agreement takes place, would love to stay in the geography of our country, the Pope is not limited only to Moscow. In the early days of Christianity it had not yet divided Crimea became a place of exile for the fourth Bishop of Rome recognized in the Orthodox saint, Pope Clement. Arriving at the place of exile in Hersonissos, he “uncovered tamo more than the two tysyasch Christians.” At the end of the first millennium of Crimea became a place of baptism of St. Vladimir, which began with the history of our nation Christianity and Hersonissos – our Temple Mount, which allows Russia to count its history from the beginning of the birth of Christ, and have the foundation of the heritage of ancient Rome and Greece. Today, we know little about Pope Clement, but it is known about his letter to the Corinthians, in which he asked them to restore peace and unity among themselves, lost because of jealousy, which causes separation. Visit Chersonese Pope Francis turned out to be yet another historic event in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, regardless of a particular political context, accompanying this act.
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