{"id":17180,"date":"2025-12-02T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/?p=17180"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:12:48","slug":"ecumenism-is-not-absorption-or-domination-pope-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/ecumenism-is-not-absorption-or-domination-pope-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecumenism Is Not \u2018Absorption or Domination,\u2019 Pope Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISTANBUL (CNS) \u2014 As he had done throughout his visit to Turkey, Pope Leo XIV spent his last morning in the country reaffirming the Catholic Church\u2019s commitment to the search for Christian unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key symbol of that was the pope\u2019s presence at the Divine Liturgy celebrated by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople on 30 November, the feast of St. Andrew, patron of the patriarchate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades, the popes and patriarchs have sent delegations to each other\u2019s patronal feast celebrations \u2014 the Vatican\u2019s celebration of the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul each 29 June 29 and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ancient-tradition-for-feast-of-st-andrew-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">patriarchate\u2019s celebration of St. Andrew<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sts. Peter and Andrew were brothers and were the first of the 12 Apostles to be called by Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the liturgy, the pope and patriarch went to a balcony, where they jointly blessed the people gathered below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patriarch Bartholomew had been present at most of the events on Pope Leo\u2019s itinerary in Turkey, including the meeting in Ankara on 27 November with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and government and civic officials. 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(photo: CNS\/Lola Gomez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the 30 November liturgy in the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, Pope Leo spoke about how, for 60 years, Catholics and Orthodox have followed \u201ca path of reconciliation, peace and growing communion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increasingly cordial relations have been \u201cfostered through frequent contact, fraternal meetings and promising theological dialogue,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd today we are called even more to commit ourselves to the restoration of full communion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Especially important work has been done by the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, the pope said, but he noted that tensions among the Orthodox churches have led some of them to suspend their participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commission\u2019s last plenary session was held in Egypt in 2023; the most noticeable absence was that of the Russian Orthodox Church, which broke relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2018, when the patriarch recognized the autonomy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Leo used his greeting at the Divine Liturgy to confirm that, \u201cin continuity with the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and my predecessors,\u201d the pursuit of full communion among Christians \u201cis one of the priorities of the Catholic Church. In particular, it is one of the priorities of my ministry as Bishop of Rome, whose specific role in the universal Church is to be at the service of all, building and safeguarding communion and unity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his homily at the liturgy, Patriarch Bartholomew restated the Orthodox commitment to unity and called for common Christian efforts to protect the environment and to end wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe cannot be complicit in the bloodshed taking place in Ukraine and other parts of the world and remain silent in the face of the exodus of Christians from the cradle of Christianity\u201d in the Holy Land, the patriarch said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Leo\u2019s day had begun with a visit to Archbishop Sahak II Mashalian, the Armenian Apostolic patriarch of Constantinople, at his cathedral in Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The celebrations of the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and its statement of faith that formed the basis of the Nicene Creed are an affirmation that \u201cwe must draw from this shared apostolic faith in order to recover the unity that existed in the early centuries between the Church of Rome and the ancient Oriental Churches,\u201d the pope said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe must also take inspiration from the experience of the early church in order to restore full communion,\u201d he said; 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