Moscow--Relations between Catholics...

Moscow--Relations between Catholics and Orthodox Russia (see C.I, April 2003 p 22) remain strained. During the week of Christian Unity in January 2003 pontiff John Paul Ii made an appeal to Russian authorities to analyze the crisis caused by the expulsion of near Catholic priests and a bishop from the Federation. Shortly thereafter, Catholic Bishop Clemen Pickel, of German origin, whose diocese of Saratov lies in southern European Russia, received a permission of permanence from the Russian restraint

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