” “"Our acute consciousness of the greatness and considerable depth of the Christian culture of your tradition increases our concern for you in relation to your current problems and crises, but it also gives us confidence in the fact that, with God’s help, you will find a way out of these difficulties and that in a new way we shall be strengthened in our common pilgrimage towards the unity that Jesus Christ wishes for us and for which he prays". This is one of the concluding passages of the speech given by Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, to the Lambeth Conference at Canterbury this afternoon. Convened every ten years, the Lambeth Conference brings together Anglican archbishops and bishops from around the world. The text of Cardinal Kasper’s address is published complete in today’s Osservatore Romano. Recalling what was written in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury in December 2004, the cardinal declared: "In a spirit of ecumenical friendship and collaboration we are ready to support you in any appropriate or necessary way". (to be continued)” “
