Source: National Catholic Register COMMENTARY: That Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople would travel to Warsaw to stand alongside a Catholic bishop to call out the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is altogether remarkable. by Father Raymond J. de Souza The aftershocks of the “ecclesial earthquake” were not long in coming. On Friday, Pope Francis consecrated Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On Sunday, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was in Warsaw. What connects the two events? Neither the Bishop of Rome nor the patriarch of the “New Rome” — Constantinople — take into account any longer possible objections from…
cumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (r), the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, and Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, the head of the Catholic bishops' conference of Poland, pray together during a meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw, Poland, on March 29. (photo: Press Office of the Polish Bishops' Conference / Associated Press)