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TwitC
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Overcoming Pessimism on Path to Full Christian Unity
Posted by TwitC on 03/29/2011
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The Pope has said that in ecumenical dialogue one "must overcome the temptation of resignation and pessimism, which is lack of trust in the power of the Holy Spirit." Speaking last night during the second vespers of the Conversion of St. Paul in the Roman basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls, Benedict XVI said the road to this unity "must be perceived as a moral imperative, a clear response to the call of the Lord." "The quest for the restoration of unity between divided Christians can not be reduced to a mutual recognition of differences and the achievement of peaceful coexistence. That for which we yearn is the unity for which Christ himself prayed and which, by its nature, is manifested in a co ...

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