Pope Francis had a meeting with Reverend Derek Browning, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, who greeted the pope with these words.<\/p>\n
\u201cWise people tell us that we must speak the truth and love, but in the first place we must speak together.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The pope thanked the highest representative of the Scottish Church for the visit, which took place a few months after the celebration of the fifth centenary of the Reformation. Pope Francis emphasized overcoming misgivings between Catholics and Protestants.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope recalled that mutual suspicion belongs to the past thanks to the path of communion that is increasingly bearing fruit.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> In the exchange of gifts, the Moderator gave the pope a book on one of the most popular saints in the country, and another original gift.<\/p>\n \u201cFood things and drink things from Scotland which we hope will keep you in good and strong health.'<\/em><\/p>\n The pope responded with the three fundamental writings of his pontificate. The Church of Scotland, known as the Kirk, broke in 1560 with Rome and currently has less than half a million followers.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 26, 2017. The highest representative of the Church of Scotland gave Pope Francis typical food and drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lsn2H2tRjrE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapachiesascoziaeng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapachiesascoziaint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n'Let us thank the Lord for the great gift of being able to live this year in true fraternity, no longer as rivals, after long centuries of estrangement and conflict.'<\/em><\/p>\n
\n'The mutual purification of memory is one of the most significant fruits of this common journey.'<\/em><\/p>\n