Greetings, Paris

and retrogrades.

It is June the 10th, and the Vatican intends in three days to release

a new document on the papacy. On May the 23rd, I did a show on papal supremacy. I've had a lot of very timely shows recently, and a lot of them have

been partly just luck. This one was almost sheer dumb luck, and it was on papal supremacy.

So I don't know what this means.

It seems to be a far-reaching document for ecumenism.

I'm looking at the document, cattolish.de in English.

English.comish.atholish.de.

And it says, Vatican announces document on the papacy.

For around 1,000 years, church leaders in the east and west have been arguing about the

supremacy of the Pope.

Now the Vatican has drawn up a proposal on how the papacy could be acceptable to other churches.

The text could have far-reaching consequences.

On Thursday, the Vatican intends to present a document that could have far-reaching consequences

for relations between the Christian churches.

The text was drawn up by the Pope's ecumenical office, according to the Vatican Press Office.

The paper is entitled, The Bishop of Rome, Primacy and Synodality in Ecumenical Discussions,

and responses to the encyclical Utt-Unum Sint.

It takes up in encyclical from 1995 by JP2, the magisterial text, which was groundbreaking for Christian unity at the time,

held out the prospect of a new self-image in a different way of exercising the papacy,

particularly with regard to the churches of the East.

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