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*1985 Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope [[Benedict XVI]]) issues ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=bSZtm0DWz_cC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=ratzinger+orthodox+static+petrified&source=bl&ots=vesTi9UlXO&sig=pU8wHogd9sO3GEEgFQ1o_QWxxqY&hl=en&ei=rwq5TdGuMMnr0gHshJDdDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false The Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church],'' where he caricatures all [[Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox Churches]] as doctrinally "static" and "petrified as it were."<ref group="note">'We have already referred indirectly to the Eastern Orthodox Churches. What are relations like with them? "Contacts with them are only superficially easier; in reality we are faced with grave problems. These Churches have an authentic doctrine, but it is static, petrified as it were. They remain faithful to the tradition of the first Christian millenium, but they reject later developments on the grounds that Catholics decided upon these developments without them. For them, questions of faith can only be decided by a 'really ecumenical' council, i.e., one which includes all Christians. Therefore they regard as invalid what Catholics have declared since the split..."' (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger with Vittorio Messori. ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=bSZtm0DWz_cC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=ratzinger+orthodox+static+petrified&source=bl&ots=vesTi9UlXO&sig=pU8wHogd9sO3GEEgFQ1o_QWxxqY&hl=en&ei=rwq5TdGuMMnr0gHshJDdDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false The Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church].'' Ignatius Press, 1985. pp.161-162.)</ref>
*1987 Orthodox-Roman Catholic Joint Commission in Bari issues common document ''"Faith, Sacraments and the Unity of the Church."''
*1988 Orthodox-Roman Catholic Joint Commission in Valamo publishes common document ''"The Sacrament of Order in the Sacramental Structure of the Church;"'' Pope [[John Paul II]] addressed the European Parliament urging unity with the East.<ref>William D. Montalbano. ''[http://articles.latimes.com/1988-10-12/news/mn-3301_1_john-paul Ulster's Paisley Disrupts Talks: Pope Urges W. Europeans to Seek Unity With East].'' LA Times. October 12, 1988.</ref><ref group="note">"...as the Pope began to speak, the Rev. Ian Paisley, the hard-line Protestant clergyman and a member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, rose to heckle him.''"I renounce you as the anti-Christ! I renounce you and all your cults and creeds!"'' Paisley shouted from the rear of the chamber, quoting Thomas Cranmer, a pope-hating Archbishop of Canterbury who was burned at the stake in 1556." (William D. Montalbano. ''[http://articles.latimes.com/1988-10-12/news/mn-3301_1_john-paul Ulster's Paisley Disrupts Talks: Pope Urges W. Europeans to Seek Unity With East].'' LA Times. October 12, 1988.)</ref>
*1989 Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope [[Benedict XVI]]) publishes "''[http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdfmed.htm Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation],''" where he rehearses historical heretical arguments against [[hesychasm]] (in sections 26-28), caricaturing [[hesychasm]] as a "psychological-corporal method" with numerous inherent dangers.
*1990 The Soviet Union and Holy See established official relations 15 March 1990.
