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I am sorry that you didn't take a moment to summarize your observations on the talk of Abbot Nicholas, or what he said that can be thought of as speaking for "How Eastern Catholics see themselves in America".
ReplyDeleteIt was such a wide ranging interview that any synopsis I would have written would have fallen short. The major themes were the existence of both East and West, the value of mysticism, and what Eastern Catholics/Orthodoxy can teach Latin Catholics (what they hunger for in his thinking).
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