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Ecumenism is obligatory for all Christians, Pope says September 05, 2005
Christian unity "must be the objective of all those who profess faith in the Church." That was the message of Pope Benedict XVI to an ecumenical assembly taking place this week in Assisi.
Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, read the Pope's message to the opening session of the 9th Inter-Christian Symposium, which brings together Catholic and Orthodox scholars for talks that will center this year on the Eucharist in the eastern and western Christian traditions.
Nothing the timely topic for discussions during the Year of the Eucharist, the Pope said that the desire to achieve full communion, and share the Eucharistic banquet, should inspire Christians "to intensify prayer, study, and dialogue with the aim of resolving the differences" that separate them. He added: "The search for full and visible unity among all Christ's disciples is a particularly urgent need of our times." The Inter-Christian Symposium is joingly hosted by the Antonianum Pontifical University in Rome and the Aristotle University in Thessalonica, Greece. Meetings alternate between locations in Italy and Greece.
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