Catholic World News is reporting that The Pope May Travel to Istanbul to have an ecumenical summit with the titular head of the Orthodox Church, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.

We need to really pray for these kinds of meetings between the "two lungs" of the Church to be more frequent and to bear fruit. The division between Catholics and the Orthodox in such troubled times is well, troubling. The East and West need to respond with a united voice in the midst of the strife and confusion present in the early 21st century.