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Etienne: Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons ‘are of grave concern’

Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne said Oct. 7 he is “increasingly troubled” by Russia’s war against Ukraine and said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “irresponsible threats” to use nuclear weapons “are of grave concern.”

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Top Russian prelate says relations with Vatican are ‘practically frozen’

Less than a month after meeting briefly with Pope Francis in Kazakhstan, one of the Russian Orthodox Church’s most senior prelates has said that relations between the two churches are more or less at a standstill.

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Russian Orthodox cleric says papal remarks on Kirill ‘not useful’ for Christian unity

One of the Russian Orthodox Church’s top-ranking clerics has said Pope Francis’s remark earlier this year that their patriarch shouldn’t be a government “altar boy” hurt efforts toward building Christian unity.

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Like John Paul II, Pope Francis heads to Kazakhstan during time of war

Popes seem to have a habit of visiting Kazakhstan amid major crises and conflicts that risk fracturing regional stability and splintering its diverse religious and ethnic communities, and Pope Francis’s visit this week is no exception.

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Archbishop sees ‘genocidal intent’ in Putin, says Ukrainians will die before surrender

Ukraine’s top-ranking Catholic prelate in the United States has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of genocide and has said Ukrainians will not back down from Russia’s “imperialist” agenda, but are willing to die to protect their freedom.

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Opinion: Pope Francis flounders on the Ukrainian front

It’s tough to say how bad things are for Pope Francis, vis á vis Ukraine, but things are bad. Just this week, the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, remarked to […]

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