A Senior Russian Orthodox bishop has identified ways that the Orthodox and Catholic Churches can work together to respond to the challenges of materialism and consumerism.
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, made the remarks at a meeting in Moscow with Johannes von Heereman, executive president of the Aid to the Church in Need International on Pentecost Sunday (27 May).
Metropolitan Hilarion said that the Churches must not wait for reunion before they take action as “Eucharistic union will not come about within a few years”.
Both Mr Heereman and the metropolitan agreed that it was necessary to “pursue new approaches and cast off the burdens of the past”. Continue reading