Posted on 10/08/2022 6:28:39 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, October 3, Interfax - The relations of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Roman Catholic Church are really frozen now, Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said.
"Lately, unfortunately, I have to say that our relations are practically frozen," he said on air of the Church and the World program on Russia-24 TV.
According to the metropolitan, some comments of Pope Francis and his assistants "do not contribute at all" to the preparation of the Pontiff's meeting with Patriarch Kirill and further cooperation between the two Churches.
To illustrate his words, the representative of Russian Church recalled that the last conversation between the patriarch and the pope, held in March via remote communication, was of a benevolent nature. However, after a while the Russian Church was surprised to read the interview of pontiff, where he "caricatured this meeting, allowed expressions (...) absolutely impermissible in this context and informed that the meeting would not take place and that, in general, he would not go anywhere."
Russian Orthodox Church is too traditional for this Pope’s Vatican…
It would be pleasant if the Patriarch and the Metropolitan told Pope Globohomo to stuff it.
Let it go!
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