The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, says he hopes his upcoming audience in Rome with Pope Benedict XVI will advance Christian unity, the Ecumenical News International website reports today (December 2, 2010).
"It is important that we speak honestly in this meeting about the challenges we have," Tveit said of the December 4, 2010 meeting at the Vatican.
It will be Tveit's first meeting with Pope Benedict since the Norwegian Lutheran theologian took up his WCC post last January.
Most observers believe that the Vatican sees relations with the Eastern Orthodox churches as having a higher priority than contacts with Protestants.
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