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His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI heads the Holy Roman Catholic Church , the Oldest Christian Church in all Christendom. And such, His Holiness is the Vicar of Jesus Christ in Earth.

Patriarch Kirill is the Patriarch of the Russian Primacy and functions as a Supreme Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Hehehe yes  you're right Buwad! There is only One Church of Jesus Christ, and that Church was established by St. Peter the First Pope. And that Church is the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church.

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By the mercy and grace of Jesus Christ Lord and Creator of All Things, He makes it known that the faith of the converts can lead His Church. Many of our fellow Filipino priests are serving the Eastern Catholic Rite. The Patriarch of Alexandria: HIS BEATITUDE CARDINAL ANTONIOS NAGUIB











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Catholic and Orthodox Unity: Close Enough to Imagine

Jan. 18, 2011
By Fr. Thomas Ryan


As we celebrate another Week of Prayer for Christianity, what is there to fuel our hope that this isn’t all just an exercise in futility? What’s to celebrate?

Signals are there that this movement called “ecumenical” does in fact move, that reflection as we go along on an increasing degree of “life together” is shaping our perception of the future in positive ways.

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Their listing of what we share is substantive and long. In short: We believe our life as churches to be centered on the Divine Liturgy, the Word of God, and the sacraments from baptism to marriage.

Both churches recognize each other’s bishops as legitimately ordained into the apostolic succession. Both venerate Mary, the Mother of God, and a whole range of holy men and women from every age, many of them common to both our traditions. Both our churches cherish ancient practices that help the faithful grow in holiness, such as reverencing sacred images, fasting, the monastic life, and various forms of contemplative prayer.

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After 950 years of division between us, the language is now that “it is urgent” to put an end to this. One might say that, thanks to prayer, local action, and the work of commissions like this, there’s been a sea change!

Consultation members do not shy from addressing the hard issues head-on and recognize that this cannot be achieved without “new, better harmonized structures of leadership on both sides: new conceptions of both synodality and primacy in the universal Church, new approaches to the way authority and primacy are exercised in both our communions.”

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What is encouraging about the Consultation’s statement is that they have reached the stage where they are imagining in concrete terms what it would look like to be in full communion with one another. Some of their observations and imaginings:

    * The bishop of Rome’s “relationship to the Eastern Churches and their bishops would have to be substantially different from the relationship now accepted in the Latin Church…. The leadership of the pope would always be realized by way of a serious and practical commitment to synodality and collegiality.”
    * The bishop of Rome would be seen as a member as well as head of the college of bishops, the senior patriarch among the primates of the churches. His fundamental worldwide ministry would be to promote the communion of all the local churches.
    * There would also be some implications for the way the Roman curia presently functions. Its relationship to local bishops and episcopal conferences in the Latin Church “would become less centralized: bishops, for instance, would have more control over the agenda and the final documents of synods, and the selection of bishops would again normally become a local process.”


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Dong, I think Jesus second coming is near. The unification of the churches is a testament to it. These unification is a vain and impossible to achieve 30 to 40yrs ago. Pope John Paul II started it all. Evil cannot defeat nor destroy the church created by Jesus and entrusted to Simon for administration whon He called Peter "The Rock" it was last Sunday's gospel reading....St. Paul first problem during the early christians was also their division but the apostoles were able to unite them. It happen again 1000 yrs ago and in modern times....you really can see how the devil is working to mislead it's members and conquer the catholic church!!!  

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Maayong trabahante bitaw to si Santo Papa John Paul II. Dili lang kai ning reach out siya sa Orthodox Church, pero ning reach out pood siya sa mga Hudeo sa Roma og didto sa Israel. Kadtong taw nag ni-try to assassinate niya, gi tagaan siya og pasaylo ni Santo Papa. In fact, the two eventually became good friends. Kuyaw no? Buutan og maayo gayud to siya nga tawhana. Mao na Blessed na siya, hapit na ma himo og Santo. Maayo siya kai gi RE-IGNITE niya ang evangelismo sa Simbahan Katoliko. 

Tinuod ka, bro, dili gayud ka guba ang mga satanas sa Simbahan Katoliko. Ngano man? Kai ning ingon good ang Ginoong Hesus Kristo ni Peter,

"Ikaw mao si Pedro, ug sa ibabaw niining bato pagatukoron ko ang akong iglesia, ug ang mga gahum sa kamatayon dili gayud makabuntog kaniya. Ug hatagan ko ikaw sa mga yawi sa gingharian sa langit, ug bisan unsay imong pagabugkoson dinhi sa yuta, didto sa langit pagailhon kini nga binugkos; ug bisan unsay imong pagaluagan dinhi sa yuta, didto sa langit pagailhon kini nga linuagan.
  -MATEO 16: 18-19

As we speak, there are more and more Christian Orthodox who are joining the Catholic Church; with that many Orthodox Churches that are reunifying with CATHOLICA ECCLESIA. Praise be to God and Holy Mother Church!

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The spiritual heritage of the Byzantine Catholic Church is the same given to us by the Apostles and which matured in the Christian East, during the period of the Byzantine Empire. This heritage includes the doctrines, liturgical practices and underlying theology and spirituality which come to us from the Christian Church of the Byzantine Empire. This heritage is shared among all of the Christian peoples, regardless of ethnicity or nationality, who trace their spiritual roots to the Great Church of Constantinople, and the Byzantine religious culture which grew from that Church. From the First Millennium, Christians of the Byzantine tradition have referred to themselves as "Orthodox Christians". Byzantine Catholics are Orthodox Christians who embrace full communion with the Church of Rome and its primate, Pope Benedict XVI, the successor of St. Peter, the first among the Apostles. Sadly, however, the break in communion between the Orthodox East and the Catholic West of 1054 still affects us today, as our communion with Rome means we are not in full communion with our mother Orthodox Church. We pray for the day when the Churches will again be one.

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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal



Maronite Archbishop of Cyprus Joseph Soueif



Melkite Patriarchal vicar for Jerusalem and West Bank Archbishop Joseph Jules Zerey











The Spleandor of Catholica Ecclesia. The One Holy Catholic And Apostolic Church.



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