Pope Francis (R) met Patriarch Kirill (R) at Havana airport in Havana in February 2016 in the first meeting of a Catholic pope and head of Russian Orthodox Church, on a mission to try to overcome the rift in Christianity dating back to Great Schism of 1054. The Ukraine conflict has dimensions ranging from geopolitics to …
Pope, Putin and Ukraine in crisis
Russian President Vladimir Putin after a papal audience with Pope Francis, Vatican, June 10, 2015 Papacy is back in global politics — that is, assuming it ever left. The gesture by Pope Francis to visit the Russian Embassy in Rome on Friday undoubtedly makes a notable event, for a variety of reasons. Pope Francis has …