Top Vatican official says 2004 could be good year for ecumenism

Published: 2004-01-19

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While new tensions have arisen in some of the Catholic Church's dialogues with other churches and some old sore points have yet to be resolved, 2004 could be a very good year for ecumenism, said Cardinal Walter Kasper. "There are very hopeful signs from Moscow," Cardinal Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, told Catholic News Service on the eve of the Jan. 18-25 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Cardinal Kasper said one of the biggest ecumenical events in 2004 would be the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's document on ecumenism.

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