Robert Francis Taft

Robert Francis Taft (January 9, 1932 – November 2, 2018) was an American Jesuit priest, first in the Russian Greek Catholic Church and later an archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Quotes

• The only possible aim for ecumenism is communion. The old notion that the church begins with God, then the pope, and on down in pyramidal fashion, is gone. What we're dealing with now is sister churches. That's what we had before the East/West schism.
  • Interview with Jesuit Fr. Robert Taft of the Pontifical Oriental Institute (4 February 2004) National Catholic Reporter

• Anything that helps spread the news and the flood of ever-new documentation on inter-church relations can only be viewed positively. And it is a mistake to think that this is not true in countries of the less-developed so-called "third world," where those interested in the rest of the world are often more computer-literate than those of us in the West. Some of my Orthodox friends in far away countries are computer whizzes compared to me!
  • Building Bridges Between Orthodox and Catholic Christians (1 May 2013) Catholic World Report