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发帖数: 2456 | 1 The Catholic–Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965 was read out on 7 December
1965 simultaneously at a public meeting of the Second Vatican Council in
Rome and at a special ceremony in Istanbul. It withdrew the exchange of
excommunications between prominent ecclesiastics in the Holy See and the
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, commonly known as the Great
Schism of 1054. It did not end the schism but showed a desire for greater
reconciliation between the two churches, represented by Pope Paul VI and
Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I.
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JOINT CATHOLIC-ORTHODOX DECLARATION
OF HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI
AND THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH ATHENAGORAS I
DECEMBER 7, 1965
Following is the text of the joint Catholic-Orthodox declaration, approved
by Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople,
read simultaneously (Dec. 7) at a public meeting of the ecumenical council
in Rome and at a special ceremony in Istanbul. The declaration concerns the
Catholic-Orthodox exchange of excommunications in 1054.
1. Grateful to God, who mercifully favored them with a fraternal meeting at
those holy places where the mystery of salvation was accomplished through
the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and where the Church was born
through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch
Athenagoras I have not lost sight of the determination each then felt to
omit nothing thereafter which charity might inspire and which could
facilitate the development of the fraternal relations thus taken up between
the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of Constantinople. They
are persuaded that in acting this way, they are responding to the call of
that divine grace which today is leading the Roman Catholic Church and the
Orthodox Church, as well as all Christians, to overcome their differences in
order to be again "one" as the Lord Jesus asked of His Father for them.
2. Among the obstacles along the road of the development of these fraternal
relations of confidence and esteem, there is the memory of the decisions,
actions and painful incidents which in 1054 resulted in the sentence of
excommunication leveled against the Patriarch Michael Cerularius and two
other persons by the legate of the Roman See under the leadership of
Cardinal Humbertus, legates who then became the object of a similar sentence
pronounced by the patriarch and the Synod of Constantinople.
3. One cannot pretend that these events were not what they were during this
very troubled period of history. Today, however, they have been judged more
fairly and serenely. Thus it is important to recognize the excesses which
accompanied them and later led to consequences which, insofar as we can
judge, went much further than their authors had intended and foreseen. They
had directed their censures against the persons concerned and not the
Churches. These censures were not intended to break ecclesiastical communion
between the Sees of Rome and Constantinople.
4. Since they are certain that they express the common desire for justice
and the unanimous sentiment of charity which moves the faithful, and since
they recall the command of the Lord: "If you are offering your gift at the
altar, and there remember that your brethren has something against you,
leave your gift before the altar and go first be reconciled to your brother"
(Matt. 5:23-24), Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I with his synod,
in common agreement, declare that:
A. They regret the offensive words, the reproaches without foundation, and
the reprehensible gestures which, on both sides, have marked or accompanied
the sad events of this period.
B. They likewise regret and remove both from memory and from the midst of
the Church the sentences of excommunication which followed these events, the
memory of which has influenced actions up to our day and has hindered
closer relations in charity; and they commit these excommunications to
oblivion.
C. Finally, they deplore the preceding and later vexing events which, under
the influence of various factors—among which, lack of understanding and
mutual trust—eventually led to the effective rupture of ecclesiastical
communion.
5. Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I with his synod realize that this
gesture of justice and mutual pardon is not sufficient to end both old and
more recent differences between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox
Church.
Through the action of the Holy Spirit those differences will be overcome
through cleansing of hearts, through regret for historical wrongs, and
through an efficacious determination to arrive at a common understanding and
expression of the faith of the Apostles and its demands.
They hope, nevertheless, that this act will be pleasing to God, who is
prompt to pardon us when we pardon each other. They hope that the whole
Christian world, especially the entire Roman Catholic Church and the
Orthodox Church will appreciate this gesture as an expression of a sincere
desire shared in common for reconciliation, and as an invitation to follow
out in a spirit of trust, esteem and mutual charity the dialogue which, with
Gods help, will lead to living together again, for the greater good of
souls and the coming of the kingdom of God, in that full communion of faith,
fraternal accord and sacramental life which existed among them during the
first thousand years of the life of the Church. |
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