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To: TaxachusettsMan

>>>>>>Better they should spend some time and energy on a TRUE ecumenical dud, Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow, a man who hasn't smiled since birth and who hasn't had a nice word to say about the Roman Catholic Church since he learned how to talk.

Amen!

>>>>>>He has a "problem" with the Eastern Churches who are in communion with the Pope. Particularly with the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Understandable. Since Stalin liquidated that Church, stole its buildings, and martyred its clergy and religious in staggering numbers back in the mid to late 1940s.

You are right: the Orthodox treatment of the Ukrainian Catholics is a scandal.

7 posted on 04/26/2005 10:59:34 AM PDT by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")

Ukraine is independent and has an independent Orthodox church which has nothing to do with Alexis II.

21 posted on 04/26/2005 2:06:18 PM PDT by RussianBoor

You are right: the Orthodox treatment of the Ukrainian Catholics is a scandal.

Majority of the Ukrainians are Orthodox. How are they treating Catholics in the Ukraine?

74 posted on 04/26/2005 6:35:51 PM PDT by A. Pole (The Law of Comparative Advantage: "Americans should not have children and should not go to college")

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