Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Russian Council's Ruling Enrages Catholic Abp.; Ruling Gives Orthodox Church 15 More Churches

The Ecumenical News International website reports today (November 24, 2010) that the Russian Orthodox Church has rejected protests by the country's Roman Catholic Archbishop, after government authorities in the Kaliningrad enclave gave the local Orthodox diocese ownership of a Soviet-confiscated Catholic Church.

"The way the Catholic Church is dealing with this challenge today reveals its many inherent contradictions," said Dmitri Sizonenko, the Moscow Patriarchate's acting secretary for inter-Christian relations.

The Orthodox Church official was reacting to a statement by Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, the Italian head of Russia's Moscow-based Catholic Mother of God archdiocese.

Pezzi had condemned the ruling by Kalincngrad's district duma (Russian council), that 15 non-Orthodox places of worship in the Baltic port city should be handed over to the Orthodox Church.

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