Another analysis which needs to be added is this one:
http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/94075.htm
Fr. Touma comes at all this from a much needed perspective, essentially, that the Patriarch of Constantinople is in a race against time, desparatly trying resurrect the glory and attendant significance of Constantinople which ceased to exist when the Turks conquered Byzantium; that Bartholomew is effectively presiding over a "phantom church". A critical yet compassionate read.
As my English friends might say, "it's dead-it just won't lie down."
Another analysis which needs to be added is this one:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/94075.htm
Fr. Touma comes at all this from a much needed perspective, essentially, that the Patriarch of Constantinople is in a race against time, desparatly trying resurrect the glory and attendant significance of Constantinople which ceased to exist when the Turks conquered Byzantium; that Bartholomew is effectively presiding over a "phantom church". A critical yet compassionate read.
As my English friends might say, "it's dead-it just won't lie down."