"The only possible aim for ecumenism is communion. The old notion that the church begins with God, then the pope, and on down in pyramidal fashion, is gone. What we're dealing with now is sister churches. That's what we had before the East/West schism."
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Interview with Jesuit Fr. Robert Taft of the Pontifical Oriental Institute (4 February 2004) National Catholic Reporter
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Robert Francis Taft
Robert Francis Taft (January 9, 1932 – November 2, 2018) was an American Jesuit priest, first in the Russian Greek Catholic Church and later an archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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