Why didn’t Francis given permission to Catholics to confess their sins to Eastern Orthodox priests and to validly and licitly receive absolution?
Is Francis afraid of offending the real schismatics?
“Why didn’t Francis given permission to Catholics to confess their sins to Eastern Orthodox priests and to validly and licitly receive absolution?”
Because that permission already exists in time of need.
“Whenever necessity requires it or true spiritual advantage suggests it, and provided that the danger of error or of indifferentism is avoided, the Christian faithful for whom it is physically or morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister are permitted to receive the sacraments of penance, Eucharist, and anointing of the sick from non-Catholic ministers in whose Churches these sacraments are valid” (canon 844 §2).
Is this yet another example of just how much you don’t know about the Catholic Church?
“Is Francis afraid of offending the real schismatics?”
I doubt Francis even knows about you.