08. November 2023

Healing of Wounded Memories

Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue: Healing of Wounded Memories

Dialogue between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches has yielded encouraging results over the past decades. Nevertheless, in several parts of the world the reception of these results on the part of the local churches and communities has been and continues to be hampered by the legacy of historical conflicts, war and discrimination. This blog collects perspectives and visions of a conscious theoloigcal and practical dealing with the past in our churches.

08. November 2023

Healing of Wounded Memories

Healing of Wounded Memories

Dialogue between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches has yielded encouraging results over the past decades. Nevertheless, in several parts of the world the reception of these results on the part of the local churches and communities has been and continues to be hampered by the legacy of historical conflicts, war and discrimination. This blog collects perspectives and visions of a conscious theoloigcal and practical dealing with the past in our churches.

23. January 2024

Healing of Wounded Memories

Regina Elsner: Healing of Wounded Memories in the Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue

In November 2018, a group of Orthodox and Catholic theologians met in Vienna, to think about new impulses for the relations between their two churches. Orthodox-Catholic relations have been complex and challenging for most of their history. Apart, from the inspiring first years of the “Dialogue of Love” – the very personal and emotional encounters of the heads of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the bishops of Rome – the last decades of ecumenical relations are shaped by demanding theological debates and skepticism in practical questions. How to overcome the crisis, how to transfer the convergence in theological debates into mutual trust among the faithful?