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Is ‘Fiducia’ a new obstacle to Vatican’s peace push on Ukraine?
John L. Allen Jr., Crux
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
There are a handful of factors that help explain why Vatican efforts to play a mediating role in Ukraine have come up short, and recently a new one has begun to come into focus: The fact that Pope Francis’s external and internal agendas may be in conflict vis-à-vis engaging Russia. Most recent is Fiducia supplicans, which the Russian Orthodox Church considers “a sharp departure from Christian moral teaching.”