<http://www.nytimes.com/> <http://www.nytimes.com/> The New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/>
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/ads/spacer.gif <http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&page=www.nytimes.com/printer-friendly&pos=Position1&camp=foxsearch2007-emailtools02d-nyt5-511278&ad=JUNO_88x31_STATIC-1.gif&goto=http://www.foxsearchlight.com/juno/> _____ November 15, 2007 World Briefing | Europe Vatican City: Catholic-Orthodox Accord on Papal Primacy By IAN FISHER <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/ian_fisher/index.html?inline=nyt-per> Efforts to reunite the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, split for nearly 1,000 years, took a cautious step forward as a joint commission agreed that the pope has primacy over bishops of both churches. But a declaration, to be officially released today, states that the two sides had not agreed on exactly what authority the pope might exercise if the churches came together again. Pope Benedict XVI <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/benedict_xvi/index.html?inline=nyt-per> has declared full communion between the churches a central goal of his papacy, though relations with the Russian Orthodox have proved particularly difficult. The Russian church did not approve the new document. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/world/europe/15briefs-orthodox.html?ex=1352869200&en=34ab54b92dbd9ded&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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