Path to Unity Will Be "Slow and Painful"

Bartholomew I, Echumenical Leader of the world's orthodox Orthodox, made comments welcoming the Pope's call to unity and calling the repair of the schism an "obligation to God."

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It's something definately worth praying for with great rigor, given the difficulty of the task, that this obligation be soon fulfilled. I do not think it unfeasible that it be achieved during the reign of Benedict XVI, certainly in my own lifetime. Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us!