VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The highest ranking Vatican official to visit Russia since the start of Pope Benedict's papacy began a mission to Moscow on Monday to test the waters for improving ties with the Russian Orthodox Church.
In an unexpected announcement, the Vatican said Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and Benedict's point man for relations with other Christians, would spend four days in Moscow.
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