ICON RETURNS --- Patriarch Alexy II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, venerate the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan during a ceremony Aug. 28 in Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin in Moscow. The icon, which was spirited out of Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution, was returned at the request of Pope John Paul II as a gesture of good will intended to help bridge the 1,000-year divide between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches.

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