PRAGUE, November 30, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- As Pope Benedict XVI visits
Turkey for dialogue with Orthodox Christian leaders, there is new
attention being given to prospects for reconciliation between the two
major branches of Christendom. RFE/RL correspondent Jeffrey Donovan
spoke to Bishop Illarion Alfeyev, the Russian Orthodox Church's
representative in Vienna to European institutions, about why the
Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches want to move closer, and about
what keeps them apart.