Unifier of Christians lauded as he retires

From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-

The Rev. Don Green’s colleagues sometimes tease him about the photo in which he, a Lutheran minister, appeared to kneel before Pope John Paul II in a 2004 audience.

But this spiritual descendant of Martin Luther wasn’t going to let appearances get in the way of his passion for bridging differences between Christian groups, and he was crouching down for a reason. John Paul by then had a pronounced hunch due to Parkinson’s disease, and “if I wanted to look him in the eye, I had to get down,” Rev. Green said.

He told the pope “it was my prayer that we could share in the Lord’s Supper on the way to unity and not as the end of the journey. He smiled with acknowledgement that he understood what I said.”
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