Ecumenical talks reach partial accord on Papal Primacy
The dialogue in Ravenna between the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Catholic Church has yielded a statement. However, it doesn’t seem to say anything new. Everyone agrees that of the five ancient patriarchates, the Bishop of Rome had primacy. But no one agrees on what that means.
Read the news article here.
From the comments:
Without having read it, one ventures to suggest that a 46-paragraph document on an essentially simple subject such as this might be regarded on its face as of very little significance. If they really agreed, they could probably say so in three or four.
Even though they are theologians.
Hat tip: Taylor Marshall.
