tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post1674645669514931990..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: A Collection of Documents Related to the Forthcoming(?) Pan Orthodox CouncilUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-49905661507578595502016-06-10T16:42:51.224-04:002016-06-10T16:42:51.224-04:00Another analysis which needs to be added is this o...Another analysis which needs to be added is this one:<br /><br />http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/94075.htm<br /><br />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.<br /><br />As my English friends might say, "it's dead-it just won't lie down."Gregory Manninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798975083337963164noreply@blogger.com