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Moscow Patriarch: "This pontificate will be remembered"

The Italian news agency ANSA reports:

Benedict XVI will be the Pope of the ecumenical turning point. Who says this, in an interview to ANSA, is Alexis II, Ecumenical [sic] Patriarch of all the Russias: "We expect from him concrete facts to solve the existing difficulties; one may expect that, exactly for this reason, the pontificate of Benedict XVI will become famous and will be remembered". The Patriarch of Moscow adds: "The declarations of Benedict XVI on the will to develop the relations with the Orthodox Church inspire hope that the situation will change for the better."
ANSA has not yet released the full text of the interview.

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