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Solidarity with Ukraine’s Martyr-Church

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Thursday, September 14, 2023

Ukrainians were understandably outraged at comments by Pope Francis that seemed to praise imperial Russia. If the pope wanted to lift up models of “Russian greatness,” why not commend the theological, spiritual, and literary genius of Vladimir Solovyov, prophet of ecclesial reconciliation between Catholicism and Orthodoxy?

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