The Eastern Orthodox Church

What is the Eastern Orthodox Church? What Does the Roman Catholic Church say about it? These are the questions we are going to answer this week.

What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Read two of the articles linked to on this page and write brief summaries of them here.

What does the Catholic Church say about the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Choose one of these Vatican documents regarding the relationship between the two churches. Write a brief summary of it here.

• Decree on Ecumenism, Chapter 3, Section I
• John Paul II's Ut unim sint
• John Paul II's Address to members of the Congregation for Members of the Oriental Churches
• John Paul II's Orientale lumen

While the two churches do not always agree, there has been dialog between the two for more than 40 years. Choose one of the documents listed here and write a summary of it here.

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