[Antoninus]

The Pope is looking at the issues of reconciling the Catholic and Orthodox churches, not making a statement about Putin's placing a KGB toady in charge.

You said that the Russian Orthodox Church was not a true Christian Church. If that's the case, then why is the Pope hailing a possible reconciliation? Seems to me that he thinks it's a Christian Church.

[dfwgator]

During WWII, the Russian Orthodox Church was accused of cooperating with the Nazi Occupiers....however it should be pointed out, that the Nazis actually treated the ROC with a heck of a lot more respect than Stalin did. The ROC does what it has to do to survive, and sometimes that means making deals with the Devil.

[dirtboy]

Go ahead. Ignore the 800 pound gorilla and its 600 pound sidekick by pretending they're just cute monkeys.

I will call them what they are - fascistic.

Toodles, life is too short to waste with apologists for such.