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 | | VATICAN CITY, SEP 5, 1996 (VIS) - The Holy Father sent a message, made public today, to Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, who participated in a colloquium on Saturday, August 31 in Malines, Belgium, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the "Malines Conversations" between Catholics and Anglicans. |
 | | "The 'Malines Conversations' which began in 1921 and lasted for five years," writes John Paul II, "were the fruit of the joint initiative of three ecumenical pioneers: Cardinal Mercier, the then Archbishop of Mechelen, Lord Halifax and the Abbe Fernand Portal. |
 | | The Pope later notes that "the results of the Malines Conversations matured with the passage of time." He recalls the contacts between Pope John XXIII and Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher of Canterbury, whose "bonds of friendship and esteem were strengthened during the course of the Second Vatican Council." |
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