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Russia’s Catholic bishops ‘interested in strong Orthodoxy’
Tuesday, 07 September 2010 10:15
CWNews.com - Cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church is necessary for the growth of Catholicism in Russia, according to the secretary general of the Conference of Russian Catholic Bishops.
“The Catholic community in Russia is a minority and must cooperate with the Orthodox; only then we’ll be able to develop to the utmost,” Father Igor Kovalevsky told Nezavisimaya Gazeta. “So, let’s say we are interested in strong Orthodoxy.”
Catholics and Orthodox need to work together to combat European secularism and re-evangelize the continent, he added.
0.7% of Russia’s 141.8 million people are Catholic, according to Vatican statistics.
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| According to the text, `We are the body of Christ and each of us is one of its members' (cf. 1 Cor. 12:27), we are said to be the body of Christ. We do not become this body through the loss of our own bodies; nor again because Christ's Body passes into us hypostatically or is divided into members; but rather because we conform to the likeness of the Lord's flesh by shaking off the corruption of sin. For just as Christ in His manhood was sinless by nature both in flesh and in soul, so we too who believe in Him, and have clothed ourselves in Him through the Spirit, can be without sin to Him if we so choose. St. Maximus the Confessor, Second Century on Theology, Philokalia, V. 2 |