PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW: ECOLOGICAL CRISIS CAUSED BY ''HUMAN INTERFERENCE''

Filipe Domingues, Jun 8, 2018, SPECIAL TO CRUX, cruxnow.com

Pope Francis presents a gift to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople during a meeting in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 26. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)

ORTHODOX SEE COUNCIL AS ANTIDOTE TO ‘HERESIES AND RUSES OF REASON’

 Filipe Domingues,July 9, 2016 SPECIAL TO CRUX

Despite the fact that four of the fourteen independent Eastern Orthodox churches of the world opted not to show up, an expert on Orthodoxy insists that the "Holy and Great Council" in Crete in late June was significant, arguing that meeting together to hash out issues is part of the DNA of Orthodoxy.