Posted on 08/25/2022 6:45:14 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has canceled his planned attendance at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan next month where he was expected to meet with Pope Francis, a top Orthodox official said, in a sign of further deterioration in relations over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of foreign relations for the Moscow Patriarchate, was quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency as saying that Patriarch Kirill would not be attending the Sept. 13-15 meeting and that therefore any meeting with Francis was off.
Kirill has justified the invasion of Ukraine on spiritual and ideological grounds, calling it a “metaphysical” battle with the West. He has blessed Russian soldiers going into battle and invoked the idea that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.
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He figures in his life he’s already met enough communists
So the schism continues for another 1,000 years...
Given this Pope, I’d say it’s smart to leave him hanging.
Nice work, Kirill!
No great loss
No loss whatsoever
May be better off
He figures in his life he’s already met enough communists”
He had to grow up under that crap and now has Europe and the Neocons trying, yet again, to shove it down his throat.
Smart man to wait until someone better comes along.
The Pope is full on with the Globalists, while the Russian Orthodox are not. I doubt they see eye to eye much these days.
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