Since Vatican II, efforts to repair the [Great Schism of 1054] have continued, with John Paul II talking of the Church ‘breathing with two lungs’, the more rational Latin temperament complementing the mystical and contemplative Eastern spirit.
Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew have called for a new Council of Nicaea in 2025, the 1700th anniversary of the first council. Francis has declared that church unity does not come through theological agreement, however, but through relational unity; and that unity does not come through other churches ‘returning to the Mother Church, but when we all move closer to Jesus’.
Source: Jeff Fountain - Weekly Word eNewsletter, 8 April 2019, "The Creed That Unites And Divides"
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