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Crux offers the very best in smart, wired, and independent coverage of the Vatican and the Catholic Church.
In an increasingly polarized world, where spin can be more important than facts, Crux aims to be an objective voice, offering the best news and analysis from journalists with decades of experience on the Vatican and religious beat.
Crux was founded as a project of The Boston Globe in 2014, but has been fully independent since March 2016.
Tune in every Tuesday for Last Week in the Church, where John Allen Jr. gives his expert insight and analysis on the latest news from the Catholic Church.
In an increasingly polarized world, where spin can be more important than facts, Crux aims to be an objective voice, offering the best news and analysis from journalists with decades of experience on the Vatican and religious beat.
Crux was founded as a project of The Boston Globe in 2014, but has been fully independent since March 2016.
Tune in every Tuesday for Last Week in the Church, where John Allen Jr. gives his expert insight and analysis on the latest news from the Catholic Church.
Pope rejects Ukraine’s Orthodox ban: Last week in the Church with John Allen Jr.
In this episode: 0:00 Introduction
3:04 Pope rejects Ukraine’s Orthodox ban
9:05 Pope avoiding ‘Biden moment’ with next trip?
15:16 Ecclesiastical group founder expelled for abuse
22:46 Vatican staff still waiting for Pope’s reply
26:20 Nigeria’s military complicit in Christian persecution?
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3:04 Pope rejects Ukraine’s Orthodox ban
9:05 Pope avoiding ‘Biden moment’ with next trip?
15:16 Ecclesiastical group founder expelled for abuse
22:46 Vatican staff still waiting for Pope’s reply
26:20 Nigeria’s military complicit in Christian persecution?
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I am still attending mass because I love the church with its traditions and spiritual message though I have many questions with respect Pope Francisco and the neo.catholic priests.
Most church going Catholics don’t really listen to Francis anymore
@@Juan-gl7cs But there also many of us ardent Catholics who love him. It is the Catholic Church, there is room for all of us ❤️🌹
@@annefalola9278 My experience would suggest most catholics in Australia certainly no longer pay much attention to him. There is little or no hatred. They used think him good-hearted if colloquial or coarse in his utterances. I think the majority are tired of him now without understanding the serious critiques. FS more than anything else made many finally give up on him. Both Archbishops in Brisbane and Melbourne are well liked and tried to preserve a few TLM in those cities but they've been forced to close the last few now. 95% never went to TLM but surprisingly many are aware Pope Francis has taken it away and are puzzled by it.
Religious freedom is NOT supreme. In a majority Catholic country the government must give recognition to the fact and religious tolerance for other religions in degree to which they threaten social, political and moral stability...public peace and virtue. The Russian Orthodox in Ukraine do not accept the Ukrainian Orthodox Patriarchy as the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople does. The Russian Orthdox Patriarchy was recognised by the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople in the i7th century and has its status because of it. Moscow is a daughter Church of Kiev. The Moscow Patriarchy is a puppet of the Russian State and does favours for it in exchange for official sanction. This was so during the Soviet era too. 20,000 RO monks nuns and clergy were liquidated by the Soviets. The RO bishops and clergy were KGB plants. Patrirach Kiril was a KGB informer. In Ukraine tje RO Church is a agent of Russia. It occupies churches and exerts influence with spying. I think it right the RO be banned and the Ukrainian Orthdox replace the RO. Greek Catholics are those Orthdox dioceses who in the West Ukraine stayed in communion with Rome following the Council of Florence. They are spies for no one and are considered illegitimate by the RO.
The problem with the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine is it acts as spy for Russia and works for Russia against Ukraine. And it is not as if that particular church actually advocates for religious freedom in Russia itself.
John, I think the Holy Father is right about Ukraine. 1. the Ukr Orth. Church, UOC, broke ties with Moscow just weeks into the war. 2. Her sons have filled Ukrainian Army trenches ( AND CEMETERIES )in disproportionate numbers 3. Catholics should have sympathy for Christians whose HQs are not in their native land... didn't we fight Italy in WWII?? 4. Zelensky is proving Putin's most outlandish claim correct. Putin listed persecution of the UOC as a casus belli at the war's onset There are plenty of videos ( search Union of Othodox Journalists) where Ukr'ian mobs break into UOC churches and mock the holy services and even cast the altar out into the streets,
Behind Zelensky are the Protestants , sunk in Sodom and Divorce, The war mongerors & peridators,
The pope is a Putin puppet! The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church is a former KGB operative. Before Soviet Union collapsed, he was an atheist, now he runs the Russian church. 😢
In 2022 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine cut all ties with the Russian Orthodox Church.
We all should know that the Russian Orthodox priest that performed the funeral rite of Alexei Navalny was punished by the Orthodox Church and my go to jail.
I'm with the Ukrainians on this.
Pope Francis is a leftist and finds it reflexively hard to criticize the Russians, like Leo was silent about the Nazis. The FSB has thoroughly suborned the Russian Orthodox Church. No wonder people of conscience leave churches empty.
Which Leo was supposedly "silent about the Nazis"? Biden, Obama and Clinton are leftists and find it all too easy to criticise the Russians. But of course not themselves in their role overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Ukraine in 2014. That Pope Francis sees two sides to this war is to his credit and I believe Pope Francis is very much a leftist.
Crux host stop using biology terms outside of biology. If pope Francis is against the new Ukraine law that bans any church group activities that is part of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Ukraine then Pope Francis is right in this regard it's Zelensky who's playing politics !.
Who cares what the Pope says anymore. I mean he backs homosexual behaviour so how can he be taken seriously.
Pope Francis has not been silent about the war in Ukraine. He has condemned this war and called for stopping it immediately. He has attempted a peace mission. Yet, it is broadly expected that the Pope of Rome should be acting first and foremost as the spiritual leader and teacher. Regrettably, I have to express my opinion that - Pope Francis, as the spiritual leader and teacher, has never publicly expressed his views about the Moscow Patriarchate's attempts to provide religious inspiration and justification not only for the war in Ukraine, but for the Russian authorities' nationalistic aggressive ideas of "spiritual" supremacy of Russia and its "holy" role in the modern world as a "defender" of Christianity and "traditional" values, "Russian world", and so on. - Pope Francis, as the spiritual leader and teacher, has never publicly offered his vision on the spiritual position of the Moscow’s Patriarch blessing a murderous war, elevating it to the status of a crusade and preaching presumed forgiveness of personal sins of all the Russian soldiers involved in this war. - Pope Francis, as the spiritual leader and teacher, has never publicly offered a spiritual teaching on the incompatibility of Christianity and nationalism as it specifically applies to the war in Ukraine and current nationalistic tendencies in the world. My belief is that it is vitally essential. From this perspective, it is hard to appreciate and accept the lack of Pope Francis' spiritual reaction to such a challenge and its replacement by a public stance regarding political aspects, in which the Pope Francis’ competence looks doubtful. Sincerely, bishop Vincent Berg.
A rare moment this useless Roman Pope says something worthwhile
How is it possible Francis sides with Kyril and Putin! Shame on him. Maybe it’s because of his 87 years!
I think if the Pope wants to help his health and I say this with Love. He needs to loose weight. That will ease his sciatica and knee pain.
Pope Francis, the proverbial bull in the diplomatic china shop, strikes again!
And all this pontification is coming from the same group who haven,t been able to prevent their own priests from sexually abusing children . 🌚
If everyone would keep in mind our Lord,'s saying, 'Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God. ' there would be no problem. No goverment, neither the Kremlin or Kiev should pressure any church.
Not taking sides but Ukraine's government is arguing that the Lord's saying supports them. Argue why they're wrong or say nothing.
@@Jimboken1 The Kremin aligning the Russian Church is wrong, Kiev outlawing the Russian Church in Ukraine is wrong. God bless and keep his true children close to his heart.
Humbug.
Thank you @@oldernu1250
Zelenski obeys Biden
U are too think. Are you ok?
The promotions at the Vatican were based on merit. "How many people work at the Vatican? About half" as the saying goes. Francis now wants to bring their pay to HALF. Europeans are lazy. Underworked and overpaid. Anyone unhappy should find work elsewhere - for the good the their families and the good of the Church.
Censorship is the child of fear , the father of ignorance and the weapon of tyrants . - Laurie Halse Anderson
James Madison : The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of EUROPE with blood for centuries . Was Madison lacking discernment ?
I wish people would study history even a little bit. That way you would know why the Russian Unorthodox Church is not actually a Christian Church. When the commies took over Russia, they made destroying the Russian Orthodox Church a high priority and all the clergy was sent to its death in Siberia. During WWII things got very hairy quite quickly for the Soviet government and Stahlin decided that it would be good to throw the Christians a bone and set the Russian Orthodox Church back up, but it was people instead with NKVD agents who received crash courses on Orthodox theology. After the war, Stahlin noticed that the agents were getting great intelligence from hearing confessions, not beaten out of, parishioners. The program continued right up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Swiss have an interesting dossier on the present head of this church from his visits to their country. After the fall of the Soviet empire, there was no purge of the atheists from the clergy and the FSB continued its use of the agents there. I understand that the present Pope is a good socialist and really has a soft spot in his dark heart for Russia as the home of the first communist state, but can't he see his way for excusing the Ukrainians for not wanting nests of FSB agents in their country while they fight for their lives. All other Orthodox Churches are welcome there and the country has its own Orthodox Church sanctioned by Constantinople.
Is Francis ever right about anything? I'm thinking... No, I can't think of anything. He seems to be on the wrong side of everything, usually on the side of subversives, which is what Ukraine are targeting. The Vatican is happy to take money from China to keep quiet about what China is doing to Catholics.
To be fair, it is reported that he thinks apple pie is good, abortion bad and JC was cool, loved the poor and was against climate change like Pope Francis himself.
Selenski like napoleon, ortega in Nicaragua wants to keep the church under his grip to dominate his own people. The Church does not support, promote or keep silence before that atrocity!!!
This has nothing to do with the Pope or the Roman Catholic Church or Italy or anything but Ukraine integrity and sovereignty.
Your stoopidity surpasses your ignorance.
@@MichaelCarroll-pv1mkIt is difficult, not? Has China the right to prohibit certain religions? Did you agree when the communist regimes tried to suppress the Catholic Churches in Eastern Europe? The Catholic church at the time was actively agitating against the integrity and sovereignty of those countries. I think the pope handled this well. He defended the principle of religious freedom and he left it to the local bishops to apply that principle to their local circumstances. That has been the strategy of the Catholic church for centuries but it becomes increasingly difficult in a time when the distance between the principe and the application of the principle is visible for everyone.
@@peterpluim7912 Russian Ortodox Church controlled by Kremlin FSB. It not Church it just dead shell wich controlled by atheist who try use religious feelings to trick people. Ukraine has other Church which also is Ortodox and they got Blessing by Constantinople Patriarch.
How does God and his church alter, or attempt against the integrity and sovereignity of any countries?
The Ukranian ban on the Rusian Orthodox Church is justified. There is a very interesting page on Patriarch Kirill in Wikepedia. Here is an excerpt: Since 1970, the federal police of Switzerland had classified him as a KGB agent, under the name Mikhaïlov.[47][48] In cultural and social affairs, the Church under Kirill has collaborated closely with the Russian state under President Vladimir Putin.[49] Patriarch Kirill has backed the expansion of Russian power into Crimea and eastern Ukraine.[50][51] Despite calling for the "speedy restoration of peace",[52][53] Patriarch Kirill also referred to Moscow's opponents in Ukraine as "evil forces", stating "we must not allow dark and hostile external forces to laugh at us."[54] He has been described as a "committed nationalist of the imperial variety", as someone "who thinks nothing of using the familiar words of a faith to their most egregious effect" In addition, I saw recently, a French video demonstrating very clearly that the Church he heads marches in lock step with Vladimir Putin.
Another expected apologia pro pontifice....journalism at its worst.
given the use by the Russian state of the Russian Orthodox as a tool of pro Russian and anti Ukrainian propaganda, the pope appears to have only seen the surface of the situation. but has he unconditionally condemned the Russian invasion?
Oh I didn't know the pope was for preaching the gospel... Really?
Think about what's going to happen when more people own electric vehicles in the city of Rome. Man are you guys going to be screwed.😮😢
The pontifical academy for life can never be called as such anymore. Unfortunately I have to say that I would never trust the Vatican nowadays with any moral issues that I am currently facing or will face in the future. And this is one that hits home for me because my mother is at the end of her life. But I don't feel that I have any guidance from the Vatican anymore.
Thank you John for giving a mention to Nigeria, by the way, it is the country with the highest number of practicing Catholics in proportion to the Catholic population. The problem is that the world - the west and sadly the Church has turned the blind eye for far too long on what was going on in Nigeria. It has been over a decade when we all knew that the military and the security outfit in the country was compromised with the infiltration of terrorists. Nigeria was 8 years under a Muslim extremist president (Buhari) who gave killer terrorists soft landing while the world looked on. We have been left helpless under a regime that condoned attacks on Churches and no global headlines came after that government. In fact, the truth is that the current government might be less extreme in religious terms, but the system has been long compromised. So let us see how this will end. Nigerians were very grateful to John Paul II whose second visit to Nigeria in 1998, we believe miraculously ended the Abacha regime only a few months after the Pope’s visit. We still believe in miracles😊 this time to cleanse our political class, so we can reorganize the system that has hijacked our military, police and security😢
The Pope is not a political leader where the governments want him to fall. In that rap!
@@dvdortiz9031 If visiting persecuted Catholics is Political then so be it! His presence is a spiritual support and his voice is a voice for the voiceless. Some of you simply live the illusion of the Church of the West, where your religious practices end with lovely Latin hymns and incense! Some of us have to face the real world of hatred and marginalization with a system that has been manipulated to keep some people in perpetual poverty and misery. Thanks
@@annefalola9278 Thank you Anne for letting us know. Nigerian christians will be in may prayers. I hope the Nigerian Bishops can escalate the issue. If the Government doesn't invite the Pope a visit may be very difficult.
I certainly hope the pope does not die anytime soon before he repents😢
@@KMF3 Bit sanctimonious, not?
@@peterpluim7912 not sure what you mean by that. How is it sanctimonious to not want somebody to die before they repent and go to hell.
What sins do you accuse him of committing??? What is your sentencing for him?
@@KMF3so you are sending him directly to hell!!!
@@davido3026 we choose hell by our actions
No dialogue of the post conciliar age has born any fruit whatsoever
I wish we could say that Pope Francis was doing all of the evil things that he's doing because of his age and senility or some type of dementia but unfortunately that doesn't look to be the case.
Evil things? Get real please. How could a pope stand up to China if he doesn’t defend religious freedom. The pope defends a principle,, the local church argues against the way another church implements that principle. There is not even a contradiction between the two viewpoints.
It seems that you are very lucid and your stoopidity is very clear!!! No excuse for you!
@@dvdortiz9031 lovely
@KMF3, The stoopid doesn't know he is stoopid, that confirms he is!!
Pope Francis seems to want to reinvent the church into a global NGO.
God bless the Pope 🙏
Pope says you can pray in whatever church you want as long as it's not a traditional Latin Mass church. 😢
I loved the Tridentine Mass but we all saw how the mass was used by the likes of Burke, Müller and Kasper to create division in the church. What they clearly intended to do was a hostile takeover of the post Vatican II church and take it in a very traditionalist direction. I’m sorry but I don’t need my Catholic prelates in a cappa magna entering a church as if they are princes of the Middle Ages. That has nothing to do with beauty for God but everything with vanity of men.
No. He calls to be conscient on the tridentine form of the Mass as something of another time, and therefore be regulated to be celebrated as an exception, and not be made a norm or an ideal which automatically deauthorises the current form. Of course you may pray in a tridentine mass. Please, don't twist his declarations.
@@sebastianfernandez3974 Rubbish. He's banned it in all but name.
@@Jimboken1 They are celebrated. For your rubbish: Starting with the diocese where I live, there are two chapels where it is celebrated monthly. I go there every now and then. Please stop lying.
@@sebastianfernandez3974 They aren't celebrated in diocesan churches. We go to church halls. That's been forced on us just this last 2 years, The Archbishops and bishops have no choice but to close them down. Francis' argument was that a poll showed bishops asking for it which is a fabrication. Contrast that with Benedict's teaching and reasoning in Summorum Ponificum. Why do some people HAVE to interfere in other's' preferred liturgy?
Why doesn't Francis visit Nigeria?
@@carolynkimberly4021 Never mind Nigerian , go to California .
Is there an official invite from the Nigerian government? That is the first public step.
@@peterpluim7912yes, the pope is head of state, and he can not invite himself to any countries. His visit is diplomatic in nature
I disagree with your thoughts on this matter.
Take no bribes , for a bribe makes you ignore something that you clearly see . A bribe makes even a righteous person twist the truth . Exodus 23:8 ( NLT ) P.S. did they bribe the faith leaders since this false health agenda happened .?
How do you tell who,s telling the truth ? The ones trying to silence other people are the ones lying .
Who are you to comment?
@@carolynkimberly4021 what? Why can't someone make whatever comment they want?
@@carolynkimberly4021a human being created by the almighty , that uses the discernment HE gave me .
@@Bluets023 Not a Catholic! Thought so.
@@carolynkimberly4021 LOL ! If being a cat is like you , nah ! Don,t want to be .
Did you know Rothschilds took over all the financial operations of the Catholic Church year 1823 . So Rothchilds own the Catholic Church .? 🙊🙈🙉🌚☠️
Thank you for your fair assessment. The law is against the “activities”. Some of those activities have been pro Russian, ex giving coordinates etc. The Russians have destroyed churches. In the past the Ukrainian Catholic Church had to go underground. They’ve killed and sent priests, bishops to the Gulag. All quiet on that front. And, why has the Pope, in the last 2 years, not spoken to Kirill and Putin - to get out of Ukraine? The war would be over. No, he responds to Kirill’s letter against the Ukrainians. As I say to myself - you believe in God in spite of the clergy.
Bergoglio speaks more kindly of Muslims than he does faithful Catholics
it certainly seems so. Sad to say.
Obviously, you are not a Catholic!!! The Pope is doing an excellent job
@@erikriza7165 Do you at least pray for him and the clergy?
@@dvdortiz9031 Say one thing that this Pope has done which is of benefit to the Church. "Excellent", my foot.
@@erikriza7165 You have not been paying attention, Good grief.
How about how the Russiyans would shutdown anything that wasn't their denomination when they controlled Ukraine ❓ Look at Josyp Terelya that even predicted all of this. Russiyan persecution was insane
Archpatriarch Kiril, has long been known to be Kay gee be. His code name was Raven. The guy is worth over 4 billion Euros. They are corrupt propaganda