ECUMENICAL GUESTS — Orthodox delegates from the Patriarchate of Moscow attended the recent Congress of Benedictine Abbots in Rome, Sept. 17 - 25. They included, from left: Archdeacon Artem Pomarev and Abbot Vescovo Saava of the Monastery of the Saviour in Moscow, Abbess Sophia Silina and Sister Natalja Berlizova of Resurrection Monastery in St. Petersburg. Some of the Russian Orthodox monks met Pope Benedict XVI at his Sept. 19 audience. (Novecosky photo)