Pope welcomes Catholic Committee for Cultural Collaboration

2014-01-11 15:33:10

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received in audience members of the Catholic Committee for Cultural Collaboration which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

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“The path of reconciliation and renewed fraternity between the Churches,” said the Pope in his address, “required the experience of friendship and sharing that arises from the mutual understanding between members of different Churches, and in particular the young people initiated into sacred ministry.”

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The Catholic Committee for Cultural Collaboration was established on 27 July 1964 by Pope Paul VI as one of the initiatives aimed at “reestablishing fraternal ties between the Catholic Church and the venerable Eastern Churches”.

The committee promotes the exchange of students between the Catholic Church, and the Orthodox Churches of the Byzantine tradition and the Eastern Orthodox Churches, who wish to follow theological studies or other ecclesiastical disciplines at Catholic or Orthodox institutions.

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