"Today, in Europe, we are facing dechristianization" concerning "family consistency, person identity, and diminishing awareness of the social duties of the Christian". The "questions which we might face with the Orthodox, on a European level," are a lot, said Msgr. Antonio Mennini in an interview with SIR. Msgr. Antonio Mennini is the Apostolic Nuncio at the Russian Federation. "Now, Europe is bigger. It includes countries with Orthodox majority such as Romania and Bulgaria went on Msgr. Mennini. There are fundamental ethical values which refer to Christianity, in depth, and which may be defended as well as integrated and re-explored together". For the nuncio, the "best paths", in the dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, are "the paths of love, understanding and mutual patience", but there is also a problem of "lack of mutual knowledge". For this reason, he said, "metropolitan Kirill recently proposed that "Catholic theologians, nuns and priests might write on the magazines of the Orthodox Church", and "the same thing might happen with the Orthodox, writing on Catholic magazines".
