in the history of 500 years there are many wounds, and that Churches have lived separately with different mentalities. However in the last 50 years there has been good dialogue.

Pontiff will travel to Sweden in October for a joint ecumenical commemoration of the start of the Reformation.

Unique ecumenical document - ‘Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry and Eucharist’ - marks a pathway towards greater visible unity between two Churches.

Call for “spiritual ecumenism” born of a change of heart and holiness of life.