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Pope Praising Wise Efforts of Patriarch
Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI has sent a message to the Greek-Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. He saluted him for “your wise efforts for the good of Orthodoxy and for the promotion of Christian values in many international contexts.” The Pope’s message to Bartholomew was hand-delivered on November 30 by Cardinal Kurt Koch, the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity. The Cardinal led a Vatican delegation joining the Patriarch for the celebration of the feast of St. Andrew, the patron of Constantinople.
It May Be Time to Think Again
Australia
Archbishop Coleridge of Canberra and Goulburn has commented on media reports of Pope Benedict's remarks on the use of condoms. The archbishop said that the Western world tended to think most problems could be solved with money and technology. "It may be that Africans have a surer sense of the Pope's wisdom and of what the …More