> The short answer is 'yes', IF the Orthodox priest asked for it ab
initio. Blessings. GDVW+




> --- Michael Ward <mward@...> wrote:
>
>> Question (and I ask this out of ignorance): would a
>> Roman Catholic priest
>> give the Eucharist to, say, a Russian Orthodox
>> priest?
>>
>>
>>
>> MLW+
>>
>>
> "-----------------------------
>
> Interesting question and as yesterday's correspondence
> shows, there are a variety
> of answers.
>
> Thinking about it again, part of the problem is in the
> way we perceive the question.
> If this question were asked at a time of grave
> tensions between Russia and the Vatican, we would
> likely get a polically inspired answer.
>
> If it were a question coming at a time of relative
> peace, in which there were hopes that their would be
> reunion we might get a different answer.
>
> It wasn't so many months ago that JPII and the
> Orthodox Patriarch were sailing around the
> Mediterranean in the Love Boat.
>
>
>
> Circumstances alter cases.
>
> Charles+



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