Inital Reaction To Orthodox/Catholic Document on Issue of the Bishop Of Rome

Well we are seeing some reactions to the document "Ecclesiological and Canonical Consequences of the Sacramental Nature of the Church: Ecclesial Communion, Conciliarity and Authority" that was published by the Vatican on Nov 15. Pretty much this deals with the issue of the Bishop of Rome(the Pope) as to future reconciliation between the two lungs of the Church. That is the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox.

As expected the Russians are bellyaching. I actually think that this is a very interesting document to read outside the whole "Primacy Issue". I might try to do a post that compares this document with the document that was issued earlier by the Holy See. That is RESPONSES TO SOME QUESTIONS REGARDING CERTAIN ASPECTSOF THE DOCTRINE ON THE CHURCH. I think when both are read in tandem it shows us a lot about how we Catholics and Orthodox view "Church".

The Ratzinger Forum on this page of the thread has several articles that should be read if you follow Othodox/Roman Catholic saga.

Articles they have:
Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue Takes Important Step Commission Recognizes Primacy of Bishop of Rome a article by Zenit.org

Bishop Hilarion says Russian Orthodox Theologians Commission must examine 'ambiguous' document adopted at the Orthodox-Catholic conference in Ravenna a interfax article.

Orthodox-Catholic dialogue incomplete without Moscow Patriarchate - Bishop Hilarion another interfax article.

Update- I think the always great blog Sacramentum Vitae has an excellent post Ravenna: the latest chapter in Catholic-Orthodox ecumenism