This Poop doesn’t deserve authority.
“They have their own politicized agenda,” Metropolitan Hilarion said of the Ukrainian Catholics; “and even the Pope is not an authority to them.”
I remember when people touted Met. Hilarion as a scholar and musician. Clearly, he’s just a tool. I don’t mean an “instrument” kind of tool either.
Putin and Russians would like to take over Roman Catholics. They tried that after WWII when communists banned Byzantine Catholic religion in Eastern European countries, forced priests and believers to switch over to Russian (KGB) ran Orthodox Church. Those who did not submit were imprisoned, prosecuted and many priests were killed in Gulags, true followers of Christ survived in underground.
Now the Patriarch and Pope are kissing up?