” ” "We must not be afraid goes on the archbishop of saying this, aware of the difficulties we have and without making any plans or dreams that would be no good for us. Even in this awareness, there’s the certainty that we are moving on". A positive sign of such dialogue is the meeting that will be held in Moscow tonight at the Spirit Library Cultural Centre, where archbishop Pezzi and father Vladimir Shmalij, secretary of the Synodal Theological Committee of the Patriarchate will present the Russian edition of Benedict XVI’s encyclical "Spe Salvi". "This meeting explains mgr. Pezzi is born of the wish to make the Pope’s latest encyclical on hope known, partly because the Russian translation has just been published and distributed to the devotees. We decided to present it at an open, public, lay centre, as a cultural centre can be. And the second decision taken by the organisers, which I think is a good one, is to have invited ,as well as myself, also an Orthodox priest, father Vladimir Shmalij, who will explain how the encyclical has been received by the Russian Orthodox community, and what reactions and reflections it has aroused, because such documents are the subject of study and discussion even within the Orthodox Church".
