Pope’s Virtual Visit to Moscow Assailed
The Russian Orthodox Church this week labeled as “irrational” Pope John Paul II’s plan to make a “virtual visit” to Moscow via a satellite linkup between the Vatican and the Russian capital.
The Moscow Patriarchate reacted angrily to the announcement that the Roman Catholic pontiff will recite the rosary today with young Russian Catholics gathered in Moscow’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
Russia’s Catholic bishops arranged the virtual visit after the patriarchate responded to the creation of four Catholic dioceses in Russia earlier this month by ruling out an actual papal visit to Moscow in the foreseeable future.
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