[MarMema]

Far be it for you to judge his behavior. If you go back and read the Bible again you will not find that Christ told us to snub sinners.

Patriarch Bartholomew is not interested in politics or worldly battles, but in keeping the love of Christ within him and showing himself to be a role model of the same.

[David1]

It is not just simple politics for some one to advocate basic human rights; it is basic human decency. He had no guts or decency to stand up for the basic human rights for people in Cuba. All he was interested in was this "gift" from this tyrant and the Cuban people and go screw themselves.

[cyborg]

Stop making excuses for this patriarch's obvious snub of dissidents.

[Polybius]

Patriarch Bartholomew is not interested in politics or worldly battles,......

Neither were these two clerics.....